Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Aisha
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I took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state.
One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs.
Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get.
A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems.
It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time.
These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc.
The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking Risperdal, Zyprexa, Geodon and other new generation antipsychotics which have been linked to weight gain, obesity and diabetes.
Visit the website for the Foster Care Alumni of America.
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Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia.
Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: May 6, 2007 at 2:52 am
Author: psychetruth
Length: 00:09:59
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Views: 5574
Tags: Psychiatry drug foster care children cps mental health illness child protective services antidepressants SSRI abuse
Video Comments:
DRLAPAGLIA (July 24, 2008 at 7:37 pm)
The reason why she was treated so badly is because the State's main goal is to CUT COSTS. That is, to find the most "cost effective" treatment - the bureaucracy is pathological by nature.
mamiixcangrii (June 19, 2008 at 1:59 am)
thank you for sharing your story. one day i hope i can help children going through this.
frugalhousewife (May 8, 2008 at 2:27 pm)
They are using foster children as guinea pigs for the drug companies huge profitable phyche drugs. It is a crime. These drugs have not been proven safe, these drugs have not been studied. We do not know the long term effects of these drugs.
opensesame (March 14, 2008 at 10:34 am)
It happened to me in Oklahoma, thank god I got out.
eaz123 (March 9, 2008 at 2:03 pm)
fuck foster care i was in there for almost a year thank god i got out 7 1 04 fuck that jaill fuck all the workers all that hold your heaeds up to people kids still in there god bless FUCK FOSTER CARE A KA JAILL
xxhockeychick87 (January 16, 2008 at 10:06 pm)
Wow!
amymlc (January 15, 2008 at 10:06 pm)
OMG! This is almost my story exactly! I was put on so many meds as a kid in foster care. They made me take birth control when I wasn't even sexually active. I was on adult doses of adult medications for depression...it wasn't a chemical imbalance that depressed me, it life in foster care! I was put on hyperactivity meds as a kid because I was "hyper" but really I was just an active kid with no way to release my energy. I did independent living at 16 until I aged out on my 18th birthday.
buzman1985 (January 5, 2008 at 10:42 am)
I was in foster care also, they focused more on doping me up on Prozac and Zoloft then counseling.
11Justice (October 11, 2007 at 1:23 am)
'Oh My God sick sick sick' Stop drugging the children. Doc Drugs are BAD!!! They do not work, study yoga, learn to take control of your mind and emotions dugs screw up the bio chemistry ugggggg I am so sick of hearing stories of kids in care dugged up. It's sick!!
ariakokoschka (August 21, 2007 at 3:08 pm)
Wow, nice set of videos. Thank you.
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