National Child Abuse Prevention Month: Stop Mass Drugging of Foster Care Kids
By Kelly Patricia O’Meara April 28, 2015 April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month so it seems appropriate to shed some light on what many…
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California’s Crisis: 1 Out of Every 4 Children in California’s Foster Care Prescribed Powerful Psychiatric Drugs Including Dangerous Antipsychotics
The PPJ Gazette – November 3, 2014 With alarming frequency, foster and health care providers are turning to a risky but convenient remedy to control the…
Drugging Our Kids—Children in California’s Foster Care System are Prescribed Unproven, Risky Drugs at Alarming Rates
Mercury News – August 25, 2014 Story by Karen de Sá Photographs and video by Dai Sugano They are wrenched from abusive homes, uprooted again and…
Congress Saying Foster Kids are “Over-drugged” is Like Saying Nuclear Waste is “Overly-toxic”
There are no “safe” levels of psychiatric drugs that can be prescribed for any child By Kelly Patricia O’Meara June 3, 2014 During a Congressional…