Louis Theroux's Altered States

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2023
California is the US adoption capital, with 85% of newborn adoptions carried out privately, rather than arranged by the state. Louis Theroux talks to women choosing to hand over their own flesh and blood in open adoptions.
Louis travels to Portland, Oregon, to learn about a movement that wants to re-write the rulebook on intimate relationships. He discovers a whole spectrum of non-traditional family set-ups; some that work and some that don't.
Louis Theroux spends time with some terminally ill people preparing to take a lethal, but legally prescribed, cocktail of drugs. He speaks with some willing to take extreme measures to end their own or others' lives.
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