Overmedicated, and in some cases, out of control. Thousands of foster children across Florida might be taking powerful psychiatric drugs they do not need, and the medications could be making their lives worse.
Doctors said a local 11-year-old who was removed from her mother’s care had post-traumatic stress disorder, ADHD, attachment disorder, anxiety, depression, and optional defiant disorder. A handful of five or six pills kept her under control.
However, the girl’s foster mother says the meds did the opposite.
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