ABC News: U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugs

[DeSwiss]

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ABC NEWS
U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugs
By DR. MARK ABDELMALEK, BRINDA ADHIKARI, SARAH KOCH, JOSEPH DIAZ and CLAIRE WEINRAUB
Nov. 30, 2011

The federal government has not done enough to oversee the treatment of America's foster children with powerful mind-altering drugs, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to be released Thursday.

ABC News was given exclusive access to the GAO report, which capped off a nationwide yearlong investigation by ABC News on the overuse of the most powerful mind-altering drugs on many of the country's nearly 425,000 foster children.

The GAO's report, based on a two-year-long investigation, looked at five states — Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Texas. Thousands of foster children were being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the maximum levels approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in these five states alone. And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting the simultaneous use or safety of this number of psychiatric drugs taken together.

- This does not surprise me in the least..........

[Angry Dragon]

1. What the fuck is going on in this country??

[Charronxyz]

2. It's the profit motive...

it's the only thing the 1% believe in and since the government is owned by the 1% then kids will be turned into zombies, their life destroyed to make a buck.

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. "I'm not ADHD - I'm just naughty" I think that sums up the insanity of a lot of misguided thinking

as well as a lot of misguided treatment and therapy. Normal misbehaving becomes a disease and diseases are treated with medication.