New rules ensure kids in Oregon foster care get right psychiatric drugs, but not too many
Justin Snegirev mostly remembers feeling nauseous, tired and alone during the more than seven years he spent in state foster care.
Placed in a foster home when he was 8, Snegirev says it wasn't long before he was prescribed Ritalin, a drug used to treat attention deficit disorders. Next came an antidepressant and then a sleeping pill. Between ages 8 and 15, Snegirev says he was given at least seven different types of psychiatric drugs.
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