The Medicated Child (2008)

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.

As the debate over medicating children continued to grow in the late 2000s, FRONTLINE spoke to parents, children, psychiatrists and researchers about the risks and benefits of prescribing powerful medications to children dealing with mental health issues.

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