The mass media has just gotten wind of something that I've been complaining about for years. The drugging of children in foster care. Perhaps if they paid a little more attention to Legally Kidnapped, they'd have a clue beyond the last months top 3 juicy tid bits which includes the Penn State Scandal which I first told you about back in April of this year but didn't take off until last month and the stealing of an obese child, which contrary to popular belief is nothing new either.
This drugging kids thing is an issue that is near and dear to my heart, because the first time I met my step son he was on 7 different psych meds living like a good little zombie in a group home. They told him daily how well he was doing. And he proceed to stay out of their hair by sitting there in a coma staring off into space at a cost to the tax payer of $280 a day.
In fact this drugging children issue was showing up in my news reader so much that I was able to start a second blog just on that issue alone. http://www.DruggingChildren.blogspot.com
But anyway...
Here are the links that I've collected over the last two days regarding this drugging foster kids issue.
Foster children in Florida prescribed psychotropic drugs at far higher rates in 2008
Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says This one is from Fox News.
Same article from the Wall Street Journal Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says
Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates
Foster Kids Get Unneeded Psych Drugs, GAO Says
Foster Kids At Risk For Receiving Psychotropic Drugs
Foster Kids in Texas Getting Way Too Many Psychiactric Drugs
Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates
Foster Care Children Fall Victim to Drug Companies
Foster children more likely to be prescribed psychotropic drugs than non-foster children, GAO study finds
Foster children prescribed more psychotropic drugs than children not in state care, study says
Siouxland Woman Speaks Out Against Medicating Foster Kids
Stop drugging foster kids into a stupor
Feds Fail To Protect Foster Kids From Potent Psych Meds
Overmedicating Foster Kids: The Cost of Skimping on Care
Mind-Altering Psych Drugs for a 7-Year-Old
FDA Drug Limit Exceeded in Foster Children
Foster Kids and Meds: Doctors Questioned
Foster children prescribed more psychiatric drugs
U.S. report: Foster kids get high rate of psych meds
New report suggests overdosing of those in custody
Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotics and Tranquilizers as Frequently as Mentally Disabled
Children in foster care being controlled by excessive drugging
Examining the Costs of Medicating America’s Foster Children
Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds
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