In California most foster children are drugged by psychiatry

San Jose Mercury News has published the first of a four-part series of investigative articles about the psychotropic drugging of California children. “A year of interviews with foster youth, caregivers, doctors, researchers and legal advocates uncovered how the largest foster care system in the U.S. has grown dependent on quick-fix, taxpayer-funded, big-profit pharmaceuticals — and how the state has done little to stop it,” reports the newspaper in part one. http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/08/california-foster-children-drugged-alarming-rates/

Psychiatrists admit there is no medical, biological test for any mental disorder, yet these kids are drugged drugged and drugged !



Psychiatric Drugging of Foster Children—One Kids Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lFZw3jm5c

I Got Better...forced drugging in foster care http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWRhMOi5Lzs


Has anyone in this forum survived drugging by the foster care system ?

Same in prisons:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... isons.html

sixprime wrote:Same in prisons:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... isons.html

Check this out, NAMI the pharmaceutical company funded "advocates" for the mentally ill pushes for the drugging of children in juvenile detention centers and screening for ALL children.

Why are foster kids drugged more ? They are subjected to that screening that always comes up positive for something they say 'requires' drugs. The drug companies MAKE the screening tests most of the time.

This video is a bit old but the NAMI efforts to get more kids on drugs worked.

Indiana NAMI Rep pushing mental illness screening, which will result in even more kids on drugs.
http://youtu.be/Z6TapDyT-mI

More on that pill pushing group NAMI http://goo.gl/j9f3EZ

Sorry the reply is long, but this post is so relevant. I have been in California's foster care for 2 years now. I was admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a 5th time and CPS finally decided it was time for residential treatment and intensive foster care as for my own home is "unsafe and not meeting my psychiatric needs".

They kept me at basically a homeless shelter for at risk teens awaiting group homes/foster ect. [*** mod edit***] The usual wait time 2-4 weeks to be placed. I was there for 11+ months.

In that time about 6 months into my involuntary stay, I was offered a group home 3+ hours away from my school, and most importantly family. Their only issue was that in order to be placed at their level 14/12 group home for girls [*** mod edit***], it was highly recommended (and mandatory in some of their residential homes) to be on some sort of medication.
Do you see the dilemma? I was taken away from my home, and the only option to leave a homeless shelter was to be placed on medication and be sent away from my family! What about family therapy? How about not give me a mood altering medicine? Gee, thanks California. I was put on Lamictal by the way.

Furthermore, that placement NOT working out (surprise?) led me back to [*** mod edit***], where I lacked a psychiatrist, (I saw him once in a 7 month span of medication). Finally I was led to [*** mod edit***]. I was placed in a home (again, medication mandatory, and if not on it, a psychiatrist completely mandatory.). Long story summed up, they were completely abusive: the father barged himself into my room when I wouldn't let him in, they looked through my items when I was at school ($40 missing, wow how shocking), they both physically abused their adopted 5 year old and 9 year old, and they were both addicted to gambling (yes, my foster money I assume was used), and then when I brought this up to CPS, do you want to know what they cried?
"Her medication isn't working. She's paranoid. She's hearing things. Remove her, now. Get her a new one."

Now placed at my aunts on long term stay, I'm still having trouble finding the right medication. I've tried 6 different antidepressants before V of the M, and Lamictal seems to be bland and unresponsive, great. I think I'll try no medications for now and see what it does.

All in all, yes! Very over drugged and mandatory! As a [*** mod edit***] year old girl with hormones and menstrual cycles raging already like many other foster teens, this is not the best option!! Maybe if they provided sufficient therapy, counseling, non abusive and overflowed living corridors, psychiatric medications wouldn't be as needed!
Thank you for reading, I as a over drugged foster youth can second this post's truth.

Hi, seinlanguage


Look what I found, maybe you can sue . PsychRights Seeking Plaintiffs to Sue Physicians for Off-label Prescribing to Children http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/09/psychrights-seeking-plaintiffs-sue-physicians-label-prescribing-children/

Thanks for adding your story, people need to know whats going on.

It gets worse,

California Foster Care Physicians Taking Double the Average in Pharma Money

November 26, 2014

Drug companies spent over $14 million from 2010 to 2013 to “woo” California doctors who specialize in treating foster children, according to part three of an ongoing investigation by San Jose Mercury News. “Drugmakers distribute their cash to all manner of doctors, but the investigation found that they paid the state’s foster care prescribers on average more than double what they gave to the typical California physician,” reported Mercury News. The physicians who prescribed the most psychiatric medications to foster children received almost four times as much in cash and gifts as the lower-frequency prescribers.

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This is an outrage !