America's Medicated Kids | |
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Written by | Louis Theroux |
Starring | Louis Theroux |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Louis Theroux |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Distributor | BBC |
Release | |
Original release | 18 April 2010 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | The City Addicted to Crystal Meth |
Followed by | Law and Disorder in Lagos |
America's Medicated Kids is a British documentary that was televised on 18 April 2010. The Louis Theroux documentary ran for 60 minutes. The documentary follows Theroux as he travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and investigates the effects of putting children diagnosed with mental health disorders on prescription medication and the impact that medicating the child has on the family group.
America's Medicated Kids attracted an audience of 2.098 million viewers (8.1%) in the 9pm hour time slot.
The documentary was met with mostly positive responses.