COMING TUESDAY: The Medicated ChildAirs 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
Jim Matiya
Florida Gulf Coast University
jmat...@fgcu.edu
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