An older news story that slipped between the cracks here
As seen in this Report
Original Boston Globe News Item here
The Boston Globe reports that 2/3 of children in state care in Massachusetts are being "treated" for mental illness with psychotropic drugs. Marie Parente, a legislator, and parents call for disclosure of "how many children in state care are being given psychotropic drugs, and for government agencies to take a critical look at the procedures for allowing these medicines to be prescribed." Parente suggested that "the state may be motivated to label children as mentally ill because of the reimbursement checks they receive from the federal government, which compensates Massachusetts for half of all Medicaid expenditures.
What are the odds that anything at all has been done about this?
Monday, June 05, 2006
Two-thirds foster care children in Mass on psych drugs
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