Pilot program to review use of psychotropic prescription drugs in Georgia's foster care system
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March 18, 2011/ Associated Press
ATLANTA — A pilot program will study of the use of psychotropic drugs in Georgia's foster care system.
State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver said many children in foster care have been traumatized and are in need of mental health treatment but data from the Department of Community Health show they are being prescribed psychotropic drugs at an alarmingly high rate.
Oliver is sponsoring legislation that would create an independent medical review for prescription drug use of children in state custody. It would also require state officials to develop an independent medical review of psychotropic medications.
The pilot program will be funded by Casey Family Programs and run out of the Barton Child Law and Policy Center at Emory University Law School in partnership with the Georgia Department of Human Services.
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Indeed, it would be interesting to see how Georgia rates and measures-up against neighboring Florida, a state known to be rich in over-medicating nightmares, (IF you are a foster-child.)
To my knowledge, PPL has one out-dated study (1990) related to the over-sedation of "disturbed children" in Georgia's DHS system. Don't worry, it's still a doozy...
Here's an insider's tip or two:
Those crazy crazy Natural Consequences... you'd think men-of-pharma-science would have all the answers by now....
In any case, other posts/threads that go further into the use of medication in foster care can be found here: Some Texas foster kids' doctors have drug firm ties and Greater Psychotropic Medication Use in Foster Care Raises Concerns - both posted on PPL in 2008.
Legal Child-Abuse...
My daughter's 3 years in foster care were spent in an over-medicated nightmare. She was prescribed TWO psychotropic drugs in an adult dosage, that kept her in a near stupor; with the tendency to fake suicide. She was placed in the psych-ward where she had her medicine reduced for observance. And then sent back to the foster home on the higher dosage. Upon turning 18 she was allowed to come home; where we immediately started lowering the dosages and got her completely off the chemical restraints. She is now a 2 year straight A student, graduating from high school with honors.
I doubt if anyone took the time to read about psychotropics BEFORE giving them to a child; or they just knew the results of giving them to children and liked the zombie effect that made for "easier handling" of the child in ?care.?
Any way you look at it, it was child-abuse...
it is really sad
and you see this a lot at public school as well. oh there is a problem lets give them some pills and see if they stop bothering us... kind of thing..
the zombie-effect
<sad nod>
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