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Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

20106.90h 59m

Overview

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

Directed by Danny Horan
Written by Louis Theroux
Produced by Danny Horan
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depressionattention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd)asperger's syndromemental disorders

About Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids is a documentary, tv movie film released in 2010 exploring themes of depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd), asperger's syndrome, mental disorders. Directed by Danny Horan, it stars Louis Theroux. Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

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