{"id":550,"date":"2012-01-12T19:06:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T01:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=550"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:25","slug":"12-year-old-testifies-in-u-s-senate-hearing-about-psych-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/12\/12-year-old-testifies-in-u-s-senate-hearing-about-psych-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"12-Year-Old Testifies in U.S. Senate Hearing About Psych Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">12-year-old foster child, Ke&#8217;onte Cook, testifies in U.S.<br \/>\nSenate hearing about his experience with psych drugs<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychsearch.net\/psych_news\/?p=2281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Foster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/images\/KeonteCook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"278\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Financial and Societal Costs of Medicating America&#8217;s Foster Children<\/p>\n<p>Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, December 1, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychsearch.net\/psych_news\/?p=2281\">PsychNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ke&#8217;onte says, &#8220;About a year after I was adopted I found out I was on twenty different drugs total, and sometimes I took up to five drugs at one time. &#8230; Some of the things I was diagnosed with were Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Insomnia, ADHD, Depression. &#8230; I had side effects no one told me about &#8230; I think putting me on all these stupid meds was the most<br \/>\nidiotic thing I&#8217;ve ever experienced in foster care and was the worst thing someone could do to foster kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<p>* CCHR Watchdog Radio\u00c2\u00a0podcast\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/podcasts\/?p=episode&amp;name=2011-05-16_watchdog_radio_episode_61_with_sonya_muhammad.m4a\">Protecting Foster Children from Psychiatric Drugs<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"ABC News Reports Shocking Use of Psychiatric Drugs With Foster Children\" href=\"http:\/\/psychiatricfraud.org\/2011\/12\/foster-children-2\/\">ABC News Reports Shocking Use of Psychiatric Drugs With Foster Children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrint.org\/2011\/12\/22\/the-psychiatric-drugging-of-americas-foster-children-by-psychiatrist-peter-breggin\/\">The Psychiatric Drugging of America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Foster Children<\/a>&#8221; 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