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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Kyle 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. http://www.fostercarealumni.org/ This video was produced by psychetruth. http://www.youtube.com/psychetruth http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth http://www.livevideo.com/psychetruth The 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: May 6, 2007 at 12:43 am
Author: psychetruth

Length: 0:09:58
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medspatic777 (Thursday 9th of October 2008 10:09:55 PM)
Antispychotics like Geodon Abilify Zyprexa Risperdal or Risperidone and Seroquel are bad. Please go to Yahoo and type in the phrase "Horrible Truth About Psychiatric Drugs". Also do the search with the phrase "Documented Proof Psychiatric Drugs Shorten Lifespan". Shocking and revealing information no psychiatrist will tell you.. Be sure to include the quotes.
Casey4765 (Tuesday 1st of July 2008 01:27:54 AM)
Amen Kyle! Your a good dude.
FreePlay (Wednesday 7th of May 2008 02:42:54 PM)
Scientology fails.
420merryjane420 (Saturday 9th of February 2008 05:21:01 PM)
hey punk i luvs u soooooooooooooooooooooo
mandimvr (Friday 11th of January 2008 04:03:24 PM)
Kyle, I admire you so very much. You are so intelligent...and strong for having the courage to tell your story. Good for you for not being ashamed to tell your story- A problem now is the former foster children are ashamed to some forward and tell their story even though they have nothing ot be ashamed of. My name is Mandi, I'm 25 and I totally understand all that you said-I am also a formffc and am trying to organize a youtube support group of ffc-- Please keep sharing yourself--
vtzc (Wednesday 2nd of January 2008 05:24:16 PM)
i gone thorugh the excate same with my depression medication. but i wasnt forced to, i just didnt know better
11Justice (Wednesday 10th of October 2007 10:55:23 PM)
Thanks for your telling your story, the more stories the more change can be made. Sorry you had to be a guinea pig to the doc drugs. Doc drugs are bad there are healthier solutions, drugging kids is just wrong.
Tessietots (Saturday 30th of June 2007 12:35:52 PM)
Im going to look into what I can do to make a difference. Thanks for sharing your story.
hunterpinarello (Sunday 10th of June 2007 05:20:50 AM)
Keep the faith my brother. By telling your story, you are helping many people.
GotaBeUSMC (Saturday 2nd of June 2007 11:43:54 AM)
You're strength is incredible. I admire your determination to survive. You're a bright, articulate young man...I'm in awe. God bless you!