Bizarre and pharmacologically absurd cocktails of powerful central nervous system drugs are prescribed after five minute visits with doctors. Foster parents are often pressured to go along with the practice.
You can find the story at http://abcnews.go.com/US/study-shows-foster-children-high-rates-prescription-psychiatric/story?id=15058380
The government report that ABC describes is the only thing that's "new" about this story. I have seen this discussed for several years in the professional media.
Only problem is, while foster kids get treated like this more often than other children, they are hardly the only ones getting this sort of "treatment."
"Only problem is, while foster kids get treated like this more often than other children, they are hardly the only ones getting this sort of "treatment."
ReplyDeleteYes, the spotlight on foster kids is going to make lots of other parents very uncomfortable.
It's easy, for example, for parents of adopted children to think that since the child came from a chaotic family background where drugs or prison sentences or whatever were involved, that something is "different" about these kids' brains from the point of conception. If it's all about the biochemistry, as pharma would like us to believe, then it's much easier to give drugs to kids who you believe "need them" in the first place. (Am I rambling?) This foster child thing is going to spell the end of business as usual when it comes to medicating all kids.
Nothing like increasing diabetes risk as well with these wonder drugs...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/754120