Juvies Dosing Kids With Schizophrenia Meds To Keep Them Docile
An investigative report found that New Orleans juvenile detention centers are giving the kids potent antipsychotics four times as often as the conditions for which they were designed to treat, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, actually show up in the inmate population. People inside the system say the jails are dosing the kids because it's easier to deal with them when they're "little zombies."
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