The Medicated Child

FRONTLINE investigated how a growing number of young children were being prescribed powerful antipsychotic medications that had serious side effects and unknown long-term impacts at the time. (Aired 2008) As the debate over medicating children continued to grow in the late 2000s, FRONTLINE spoke to...

55 min - Mind & Psychology - FRONTLINE PBS

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