COMING TUESDAY: The Medicated Child
Airs Nov 3rd, 9PM ET (check local listings)
This week's FRONTLINE broadcast proceeds from an astounding fact: Some six million American children are taking increasingly powerful prescription drugs whose effects have not been fully tested--even in adults.
Is this good medicine for families who are often desperate for solutions, or an uncontrolled experiment involving children sometimes as young as four years old?
In this affecting film, a rebroadcast of The Medicated Child, FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria focuses on a few of the more than one million children now being given a controversial diagnosis-- bipolar disease, a condition which, until recently, had only been thought to exist in adults.
The film paints an intimate portrait of these troubled kids on the edge, as their families struggle with treatment decisions that raise fundamental questions about when and how child psychiatrists should intervene. Threaded throughout are Gaviria's interviews with medical experts, researchers, and federal regulators, who she presses about the promotion, testing, and efficacy of these new psychiatric drugs for children.
We hope you'll watch Tuesday night, and join us online for interviews with medical experts, a parent's guide to child bipolar disease, and an opportunity to join the discussion.
And, if you've missed our recent broadcasts, you can watch The Warning online-- it's already been viewed more than two million times -- and Obama's War, which is not far behind with almost a million-and-a-half views.
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Airs Nov 3rd, 9PM ET (check local listings)
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This week's FRONTLINE broadcast proceeds from an astounding fact: Some six million American children are taking increasingly powerful prescription drugs whose effects have not been fully tested--even in adults.
Is this good medicine for families who are often desperate for solutions, or an uncontrolled experiment involving children sometimes as young as four years old?
In this affecting film, a rebroadcast of The Medicated Child, FRONTLINE producer Marcela Gaviria focuses on a few of the more than one million children now being given a controversial diagnosis-- bipolar disease, a condition which, until recently, had only been thought to exist in adults.
The film paints an intimate portrait of these troubled kids on the edge, as their families struggle with treatment decisions that raise fundamental questions about when and how child psychiatrists should intervene. Threaded throughout are Gaviria's interviews with medical experts, researchers, and federal regulators, who she presses about the promotion, testing, and efficacy of these new psychiatric drugs for children.
We hope you'll watch Tuesday night, and join us online for interviews with medical experts, a parent's guide to child bipolar disease, and an opportunity to join the discussion.
And, if you've missed our recent broadcasts, you can watch The Warning online-- it's already been viewed more than two million times -- and Obama's War, which is not far behind with almost a million-and-a-half views.
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