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Movie poster: Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids (2010)
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Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

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2010 · 59 min Documentary TV Movie
6.9 / 10 · TMDB

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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Year 2010
Country United Kingdom
Genre Documentary, TV Movie
Director Danny Horan
Runtime 59 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.9/10 (40 votes)

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Theroux constructs his exploration through quiet, patient observation and disarmingly simple questions posed directly to the medicated children. He relies on their unfiltered perspectives to build a case study that challenges easy judgments about parenting and modern psychiatry.

What lingers after the credits is a profound unease about the systems defining childhood normalcy and the chemical management of behavior. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Danny Horan

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