7-year-old boy in foster care locked himself in a bathroom and hanged himself with a detachable shower head. He had been prescribed four psychiatric drugs, two or three of which he was taking at the time of his death.

Three of the psychotropic drugs carry U.S. Food and Drug Administration "black box" label warnings for children's safety, the strongest advisory the federal agency issues.

Archive of overmedication of psychotropic drugs cases in foster care in New South Wales, Australia.

Archive about over-medication of psychotropic drugs in foster care in Alaska.

Archive of overmedication of psychotropic drugs cases in foster care in Monroe County, New York.

12-year-old autistic boy who died while in the care of a psychiatrist at a group home died allegedly due to overmedication.

In February 2007 California congress woman Noreen Evans introduced a bill that would require the state to collect personal and medical data on foster children as a first step to determine if they are being overmedicated because they are misdiagnosed with mental illnesses.

Archive of overmedication of psychotropic drugs cases in foster care in Massachusetts.

Initiated in 2004 by Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn in a report called "forgotten children" investigations started into the overmedication of foster children in Texas.

Over-medication of children came to the light after a series of complaints. In 2005 a bill was signed that tightened rules on when foster children can be given psychotropic drugs. The law requires prior consent of a foster child's parents or a court order before such drugs can be used. The bill's approval followed a report concluding that mood-altering drugs were being prescribed to 25 percent of Florida's foster children.

After the death of Gabriel Meyers further investigations into over-medication in foster care started.

Archive of article about overmedication of psychotropic drugs cases in foster care in Washington.

See also: Domico Presnell