ABC NEWS - DAY 1: -- U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Children With Mind-Altering Drugs

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U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugs
By DR. MARK ABDELMALEK, BRINDA ADHIKARI, SARAH KOCH, JOSEPH DIAZ and CLAIRE WEINRAUB
Nov. 30, 2011

The federal government has not done enough to oversee the treatment of America's foster children with powerful mind-altering drugs, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to be released Thursday.

ABC News was given exclusive access to the GAO report, which capped off a nationwide yearlong investigation by ABC News on the overuse of the most powerful mind-altering drugs on many of the country's nearly 425,000 foster children.

The GAO's report, based on a two-year-long investigation, looked at five states — Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon and Texas. Thousands of foster children were being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the maximum levels approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in these five states alone. And hundreds of foster children received five or more psychiatric drugs at the same time despite absolutely no evidence supporting the simultaneous use or safety of this number of psychiatric drugs taken together.

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[ThomasLGrimshaw]

Thumbs up to the investigators and ABC for their work in exposing this outrage!

[mkassowitz]

Child Protective Services is obviously a hell hole of an organization to allow this criminal activity and abuse to occur. Rename it Child Punishment and Suppression. These bozos should accompany Dr. Murray to prison.

[LoveLotusHa]

Well done ABC!!!!! Hats off to you!!!!!

[insurancegame]

The government fails at the most important things.

[TGonzo92]

These kids are going to be so popular in college.

[PennShelly]

Go ABC!



[0darkhorse8]

Thanks ABC for covering this!

[TheLoralietful]

my 6 month old grandson is in foster care a month yesterday I am sick about this. I may sound delusional but thet will very soon deliver him back to my home just to avoid further problems with me. This nation has taken enough from my house. The bastards want to take counsel against me saying I am forsaken, forgotten, lost

[davesalter1]

So the 2 dislikes to this video = 2 1/2 % or so people "like" drugging kids. Must be from drug companies!!?

[ChrisnStarry]

If they can't cause sterility, then they can push abortion. If they can't get you to murder your own child, they can lobotomize them with vaccines. If they make it through the shots, they can always get a satisfactory outcome through psychotropic drugs. Just in case they are not able to get total depopulation goals met, they can wage perpetual war both home, & abroad. Just for good measure they poison the food, water, & spray from above so the soil can no longer produce. WE DO NOT CONSENT!!!

[mentalhealthlaw]

Spectacular report. It's only worth adding that we shouldn't have been so damn easy for "bad guys" (pharma, psychs, whoever) to fool! We shouldn't have missed this for so long. If we've been stupid, it may be because of our own tendencies toward quick fixes. Medicine will not "cure" everything unpleasant that ever happens. We shouldn't look forward to scientific expertise fine-tuneing our brains for peace and happiness. Until we face that, there'll always be somebody to drug kids, or worse.