Uncontrolled Substances, Part 3: Anthony

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Kroll was 17 years old. Too young to have been a Cerebral patient, according to company policy. Too young to get mental-health treatment without his parents’ consent in his home state of Missouri. So how did a minor end up getting a prescription for an antidepressant that required an explicit warning for young adults? What was Cerebral treating him for? And why weren’t Anthony’s parents informed? In Part 3 of Uncontrolled Substances, WSJ reporter Khadeeja Safdar investigates what happened to Anthony Kroll. Further Reading: - Cerebral Treated a 17-Year-Old Without His Parents’ Consent. They Found Out the Day He Died. Further Listening: - The Journal: Uncontrolled Substances, Part 1: Subscribe and Prescribe - The Journal: Uncontrolled Substances, Part 2: Adderall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Kate.
0:02.9	This is uncontrolled substances.
0:05.5	The first two episodes are already in your feed.
0:08.5	They tell the story of cerebrals start and how it got into controlled substances.
0:13.8	This is the third episode, which tells the story of a mother looking into her son's suicide.
0:20.3	I think we're on Main Street.
0:31.1	The streets are very sparse.
0:32.6	There's just a few cars.
0:35.2	A few months ago, our colleague, Kadeja Safdar, traveled to Lynn, Missouri.
0:40.4	It's a small town dotted with churches and turkey farms about two hours west of St. Louis.
0:45.4	It's very green out here, just large meadows and fields, farmland.
0:52.5	Kadeja was visiting the Kroll family.
0:54.7	Hi, I'm not the master.
0:58.0	We built this room.
0:59.5	Get back here.
1:00.5	He won't buy it.
1:01.5	I know where he is.
1:02.5	Can we set our shoes off?
1:04.5	No.
1:05.5	Hi, Wendy.
1:06.5	Wendy, her husband Todd, their oldest daughter.
1:14.0	Hi, my name is Kadeja, I'm at the Wall Street Journal.
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