Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Tristen

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.

http://www.fostercarealumni.org/

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Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia.

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[magnalunatic]

man i was in foster care too bro i feel ya on everything you say,they get you in trouble for having pride,or resentment for having your parents taken away,or being angry at being opressed

[dannyboidj1]

does anyone know if these psychotropic drugs caused this kid to stutter like i know that tardive diskinesia is permanent but are there any other effects from this drugs that are not reversable. Thanks, this question is open to anyones response, i need to know

[cocoinfinity1]

Watching you sunk my heart. Dont let them break you. Stay strong and dont be a victim just to spite them. I hope they burn in hell. You are one beautiful kid.

[tonna15]

Anytime you go to a psychiatrist, the ONLY thing they are trained to do is pump you full of drugs. They aren't trained like psychologists are to look at the bigger picture (thinking habits, behavior, etc). Apparently, learning about neurotransmitters and different lobes are more important than training psychiatrists that DRUGGING is not the same thing as CURING.

[Rosebunse]

@tori1036 Please keep that dream. One of the reasons this system is so messed up is because there are so few good people who want to take these kids.

[Rosebunse]

There are cases where children should be removed. That's the truth. But there should be more support for kids in these cases, in any case. But these stories just make me want to help these kids. I really hope I'll be in a place to help. We can't depend on this system, and it's not all the system's fault even. Where are the good people when these kids need them? Why aren't more people helping these kids? We need more good, honest people to help give these kids home.

[MegaTRuthistruth]

Man , where are you? How can someone reach you? Put some information up. You will be someone and there are people that will help you. Your going to make it, keep strong, how do we contact you???

[shaybreezy31]

I wanna see more of him.

[tripvids420]

So strong, this man inspires me to help foster kids