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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Andrew 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 3:38 pm
Author: psychetruth

Length: 0:09:53
Rating: 4.65
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Tags: Psychiatry drug foster care children cps mental health illness child protective services antidepressants SSRI abuse

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deagsslook (Saturday 27th of September 2008 02:14:29 PM)
I was also under various foster care but they didn't use any drugs. And behaviors were no big deal. Just natural behavior and then straightening things out. No mental ill labels, etc.
louiseniriain (Tuesday 9th of September 2008 04:04:05 PM)
god help ya, these child protection services, just have ya on there books, and say the children come 1st.its a scam my two beautiful children are in care last 7 yrs, and i cant get them back.child protectors, more like child kidnappers
DRLAPAGLIA (Thursday 24th of July 2008 04:26:33 PM)
Corporations do what makes them money. Their attitude is: Who cares if it hurts the life of a foster kid? They don't see that on their balance sheet.
xxvscorpionixx (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:00:59 PM)
diabetes 2000-3000 dollars and 8 months will greatly fix that problem check out alkaline Water. Expensive as hell but what cost is there for good health look it up :-) FDA forbids anyone to use the word "cure" since they past the insane law stating only a drug can cure a Disease.
MondoBeno (Friday 20th of June 2008 01:12:03 AM)
I taught special ed and I'm very wary of medications. I had students that were medicated, and when the parents were careless (which they usually were) the kids had horrible reactions. For instance: the kid misses a dose, so the parent doubles on the meds, and the kid passes out. Or the psychologist sends the parent to a cheap PSYCHIATRIST (with dubious foreign credentials) who over-prescribes drugs. You can imagine what happens.
ccfan81 (Thursday 19th of June 2008 11:08:05 PM)
It really is a rough situation, but I really give you credit for realizing the problems and getting your life back on track.
ccfan81 (Thursday 19th of June 2008 11:07:19 PM)
Same here
baezhill39 (Monday 9th of June 2008 06:17:42 PM)
I feel sorry that you had to suffer like that I'll pray for you always God bless you Drew
paisleyyama (Thursday 24th of April 2008 11:56:54 PM)
That`s just evil for someone to threaten a kid with a mental retarded class if they don`t take drugs especially when the kid is one of the smartest kids in class. Then send the kid to the mental ward to experiment w/medications on him. This is horrific stuff.
Eureka30 (Saturday 19th of April 2008 06:35:40 PM)
Considering that I had been on "meds" for years, and I have been off the stuff for 2 years! 2 YEARS! I am back to being me, I have a beautiful 6 yr old daughter who I have had to fight MCD/DFS/CPS whatever you want to call them. They are now trying to say that she has a "mental" problem! I won't put her on meds! I wasn't on meds till I was 19! iws2spaul said it very well! Jesus Christ can do anything! Philipians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me. The end time is here.