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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Aisha

Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - AishaI 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. http://www.fostercarealumni.or... video was produced by psychetruth. http://www.youtube.com/psychet... http://www.myspace.com/psychtr... http://www.livevideo.com/psych... video may be copied, publicly displayed or used for any strictly non-commercial use provided it remain in it's full unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia.

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: psychetruth

Length: 09:59
Rating: 4.83
Views: 6664

Tags: abuse antidepressants care child children cps drug foster health illness mental protective Psychiatry services SSRI

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loaded1234567 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i was in care for 5 years and i agree, i witnessed so many pills everyone was on and for what? maybe if the focus was more on what our problems were in the first place pills would not be needed. i was on ritalin,prozac and imovane. it was to the point where i was pretending to take them. i didnt need them. pills don not fix problems, its closure we needed...talking to the ones who created our problems, like our parents/relatives..whoever was abusive ...pills are stupid!

deagsslook (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I don't mean to be in any way flippant. But there's about a thousand good guys wanting to ask you to marry them right now. Thank God for foster kids, and may it all change. This is not inexperience talking. I just lied about my age.

louiseniriain (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

god they would do any thing to keep the kids quite,why arnt any of these answerable to there actions

DRLAPAGLIA (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

thank you for sharing your story. one day i hope i can help children going through this.

frugalhousewife (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It happened to me in Oklahoma, thank god I got out.

eaz123 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Wow!

amymlc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

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.

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