Study Says Foster Kids Are Drugged Far Too Often

This is something we have been trying to bring to light for a while now and finally we have some main stream media looking into it.

We have read a copy of the training pages from Florida DCF for working with "human research subjects" aka children, they are litterally training workers on how to use and abuse our children. This is enough to make me sick.

I have made this know to Governor Rick Scott, as well as DCF workers such as David Wilkins, Robin Jensen, Lisa Voigt, Brena Slater and many others.

I say we hold governments accountable for this heinous crime against humanity, no child is disposable.

God save our children. 

Monday, November 21, 2011

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times

Foster children are being prescribed cocktails of powerful antipsychosis drugs just as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled youngsters on Medicaid, a new study suggests.

The report, published today in the journal Pediatrics, is the first to investigate how often youngsters in foster care are given two antipsychotic drugs at once, the authors said. The drugs include Risperdal, Seroquel, and Zyprexa -- among other so-called major tranquilizers -- which were developed for schizophrenia but are now used as all-purpose drugs for almost any psychiatric symptoms.

"The kids in foster care may come from bad homes, but they do not have the sort of complex medical issues that those in the disabled population do," said Susan dosReis, an associate professor in the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and the lead author.

The implication, Ms. dosReis and other experts said: Doctors are treating foster children's behavioral problems with the same powerful drugs given to people with schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder.

In recent years, doctors and policymakers have grown concerned about high rates of overall psychiatric drug use in the foster care system, the government-funded program that provides temporary living arrangements for between 400,000 and 500,000 children and adolescents. Previous studies have found that children in foster care receive psychiatric medications at about twice the rate among children outside the system.

The new study focused on one of the most powerful classes of drugs, antipsychotics. It found that about 2 percent of foster children take at least one such drug, even though schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, for which the drugs are approved, are extremely rare in young children.

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