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High rates of foster kids given antipsychotic medications, study finds
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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 482116" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>Full article here:</p><p><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45386945/ns/health-childrens_health/" target="_blank">NYT: Foster kids often given antipsychotic medications - Health - Children's health - msnbc.com</a></p><p></p><p>Seems to me many foster kids are more likely to suffer from mental illness, so this didn't surprise me. It's statistical, it doesn't mean that these kids are being irresponsibly medicated. But it's once again a "we're overmedicating our kids unnecessarily" kind of slant from people that don't know what it's like to raise a difficult child, and that sometimes medications are a last resort, or a means of stabilizing behaviors while you work on underlying issues. As the final paragraph says:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 482116, member: 1157"] Full article here: [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45386945/ns/health-childrens_health/]NYT: Foster kids often given antipsychotic medications - Health - Children's health - msnbc.com[/url] Seems to me many foster kids are more likely to suffer from mental illness, so this didn't surprise me. It's statistical, it doesn't mean that these kids are being irresponsibly medicated. But it's once again a "we're overmedicating our kids unnecessarily" kind of slant from people that don't know what it's like to raise a difficult child, and that sometimes medications are a last resort, or a means of stabilizing behaviors while you work on underlying issues. As the final paragraph says: [/QUOTE]
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