Many children in foster care are being overmedicated with antipsychotic drugs they may not really need, or the drugs are being given incorrectly, according to a government review obtained by CBS News.
The report by the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services looked at concerns surrounding the use of these powerful drugs in children on Medicaid. Many children on Medicaid are in the foster care system.
"Psychotropic drugs are being used in these children, and we don't really know what the side effects are in children this young," said CBS News correspondent Anna Werner. "There's not a lot of research because you can't really test these drugs on children."
The report looked at a class of prescription medications called second-generation antipsychotics. Five of the drugs -- aripiprazole, olanzapine, paliperidone, quetiapine fumarate, and risperidone -- have been approved by the FDA for use in children to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and irritability associated with autism.
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4 comments:
The answer to all our problems , drugs.
Don't need any parenting or leadership , just drug em and send em along.
Until the death grip that Big Pharma has on DC is gone it wont change. Another winner in Obamacare its a gold mine to them
7:16 And, when they end up shooting up their school... blame guns!
THX-1138, Brave New World, Soylent Green,Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Blade Runner, etc., etc. We're heading to all of those places.
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