PBS Investigation: Overmedicating Foster Children

By on 1-20-2011 in Foster Care, Overmedication

PBS Investigation: Overmedicating Foster Children

As a prelude to the release of an end-of-year report by the Government Accountability Office about potentially abusive prescribing practices in America’s state foster care systems, PBS “The Watch List” went to Texas to investigate. You can find the 18-minute video here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/health/video-the-watch-list-the-medication-of-foster-children/6232/

On January 10, 2011, REFORM Talk introduced the issue of overmedication in the following post
http://reformtalk.net/2011/01/advice-for-foster-parents-concerned.html#more

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