Foster care children are being over medicated
Chat Me More found this article and news reports to be quite disturbing. Many parents are forced to put their children in foster care, due to circumstances. Parents are under the impression that their children are safe, but on the contrary children are being over medicated. The drugs that are in question are anti-psychotic medications and these drugs need to be monitored by a professional to limit suicidal thoughts in children. Many of these children are prescribed 5 drugs at a time and the doses are higher than FDA approval. The drugs are: Abilify, Seroquel, Risperdal and Zyprexa. The most vulnerable are children that are less than a year old and foster children are twice as likely to be prescribed these drugs than non-foster children. A social worker from children services stated that "it is more cost effective to medicate these children than to spend $200 an hour for a therapist."
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