Louis Theroux spent some time with US families as he tried to understand why so many US children are prescribed psychiatric drugs - in this BBC documentary. It’s well worth a watch but I went away a little frustrated that it didn’t seem to come to any sort of conclusion. Perhaps the issues are too complicated for easy answers, but I would have liked to hear a little more about what Theroux thought about the fact that children as young as 6 were being medicated.

I guess it’s not his style to provide answers, he just lets the subjects of the programme speak for themselves, while turning his trademark quizzical expression on them.

I found it a little difficult to draw my own conclusions as we never really saw any of the kids when they were not on drugs. But most of what was depicted just seemed to be generally childish behaviour rather than mental health problems. But I’d be interested to hear what UK mental health professionals thought of what they saw…