Report: Government foster systems force deadly psychiatric drugs on thousands of helpless children

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<p>‘Tha ks to efforts i itiate by Se ator Thomas Carper (D-Del.), the Gover me t Acco tability Office (GAO) has co cte a official i vestigatio i to the se of psychiatric r gs amo g chil re livi g i the foster care system. The report, release i 2011, reveals that tho sa s of chil re are bei g willf lly over me icate by the system, a that there is little or o gover me t oversight abo t how ofte , or for what reaso s, these ea ly r gs are bei g a mi istere .</p>
<p>ABC News explai s that the two-year-lo g i vestigatio eval ate psychiatric r g se rates i the foster care systems of Flori a, Massach setts, Michiga , Orego , a Texas. It fo that i all these states, foster chil re are ofte give extremely high oses of a ti epressa ts, a ti-a xiety r gs, a tipsychotics, moo stabilizers, a vario s other psychotropic r gs o a reg lar basis — a the vast majority of these chil re o ot eve have legitimate me tal or other health co itio s.’</p>
<p><a href="http://www. at ral ews.com/054215_psychiatric_ r gs_foster_chil re _mass_ r ggi g.html" target="_bla k">Rea more: Report: Gover me t foster systems force ea ly psychiatric r gs o tho sa s of helpless chil re </a></p>