America's Medicated Kids is a British documentary that was televised on 18 April 2010. The Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux

Louis Sebastian Theroux is an English broadcaster best known for his Gonzo style journalism on the television series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends and When Louis Met.... His career started off in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family such as his father, Paul Theroux and...

 documentary ran for 80 minutes. The documentary follows Theroux as he travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

 and investigates the effects of having to put children with obsessive compulsive disorders on prescription medication and the impact that medicating the child has on the family group.

Ratings

America's Medicated Kids attracted an audience of 2.098 million viewers (8.1%) in the 9pm hour time slot.