Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

A compassionate but probing documentary investigation into the controversial medicalization of childhood mental illness in America, balancing empathy for struggling families with critical examination of psychiatric practice.

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.