Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Tristen
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 w...
Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Tristen
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.
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Tristan, You got a raw deal, but I can tell that you are bright, sensitive and articulate, and I hope that you will stay focused on your dream of changing the system for the better. I'm a teacher, and I can tell you that kids in foster care can be some of the toughest for teachers to reach. But I guarantee that if you make an effort in school, if you ask for help from your teachers, they will do everything they possibly can to help you succeed in life. Please don't give up.
@petitekotoizo Honestly, I'm not trying to be offensive, but... How can someone believe in all the God stuff when crap like what happens in the world, happens.
Tristan, YOU are so precious. Your life counts for all of us. don't reduce yourself to what the people tell yu. Your life is in God's hands. Call on Him. He LOVES you. He can help you. The meds con't. You surely can't forget your family...be freee to love your mother. Your heart is still caring. You're still alive in the BEST way. God can heal your heart. Give life, hope and joy to you.You don't ha
BTW that last comment was directed at judge not at the poor unfortunate soul that bears his feelings and his life story so that we may learn of our society's social problems
no one is waking up. you better just get some big guns and shit that kills a lot at once and get ready to die at any given moment. suicide is not worth a shit if you cant take out plenty of lawyers with yourself. You are so outnumbered by assholes it is unreal. The jew and its lawyers have done a number on us all. The only thing you can hope for is to kill plenty of tehm the day you have had enough. But you havent had enough. your beer and football makes eveything feel better
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You got a raw deal, but I can tell that you are bright, sensitive and articulate, and I hope that you will stay focused on your dream of changing the system for the better.
I'm a teacher, and I can tell you that kids in foster care can be some of the toughest for teachers to reach. But I guarantee that if you make an effort in school, if you ask for help from your teachers, they will do everything they possibly can to help you succeed in life.
Please don't give up.