{"id":338,"date":"2010-10-06T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T01:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=338"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:43:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:43:08","slug":"psych-meds-in-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/06\/psych-meds-in-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"Psych Meds In Jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Psych Meds in Jails\" href=\"http:\/\/youthtoday.org\/view_article.cfm?article_id=4344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Psych Meds in Jails<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A ground-breaking, year-long investigation by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/youthtoday.org\/\">Youth Today<\/a><\/em> has uncovered ample evidence  that many youths incarcerated in American juvenile facilities are getting potent  anti-psychotic drugs intended for bipolar or schizophrenic patients, even when  they have not been diagnosed with either disorder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ken Kramer, a researcher with the Citizens Commission on Human Rights of  Florida, obtained detailed annual Medicaid expenditures for the five most  prescribed atypicals in 30 states. In 2003, Medicaid spending on the atypicals  for adolescents in those states was about $238.7 million. Kramer found that  by 2007 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the year  Abilify became the first to gain approval for adolescent use \u00e2\u20ac\u201c spending had more  than doubled to $562.4 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear that in at least some states, atypical anti-psychotics have  become a major part of the medical protocol in juvenile facilities, and  prescriptions for the drugs are tied to a wide range of diagnosed conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article\u00c2\u00a0by <a href=\"mailto:jkelly@youthtoday.org\">John Kelly<\/a> here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youthtoday.org\/view_article.cfm?article_id=4344\">http:\/\/youthtoday.org\/view_article.cfm?article_id=4344<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information download this booklet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.cchrstl.org<\/a>: <em>Child Drugging \u00e2\u20ac\u201d  Psychiatry Destroying Lives \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Report and recommendations on fraudulent  psychiatric diagnosis and the enforced drugging of youth<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many youths incarcerated in American juvenile facilities are getting potent anti-psychotic drugs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/06\/psych-meds-in-jails\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-5s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}