{"id":946,"date":"2015-03-21T14:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=946"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:41:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:41:04","slug":"drugging-missouri-foster-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/21\/drugging-missouri-foster-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugging Missouri Foster Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drugging Missouri Foster Children<\/span><\/h3>\n
\u00a0In light of a San Jose Mercury News<\/em> investigation “<\/span>Drugging Our Kids<\/span><\/a>” exposing the massive psychotropic drugging of children under California’s foster care system, which found nearly 25% of adolescents in California’s foster care system are prescribed mind-altering psychotropic drugs, lawmakers are now understanding the <\/span>urgency of legislation<\/span><\/a> to curb this abusive practice.<\/span><\/div>\n

More than 30 percent of <\/span>Missouri’s foster children<\/span><\/a> take psychotropic drugs, even beating California, and most of the drugs are approved only for children with severe mental problems, according to Columbia Missourian<\/em> news.<\/span><\/p>\n

Often neglected and abused, foster children are one of Missouri’s most vulnerable populations. But “experts” say the state cannot always give children the emotional support they need. Instead, their problems are dealt with another way \u2014 by prescribing harmful and addictive psychiatric drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nationally, 18 percent of foster children are given psychotropic drugs. In Missouri, it’s nearly twice that amount.<\/span><\/p>\n

The overprescription of psychoactive drugs to foster children is alarming. Well over 5,000 Missouri foster children are taking psychiatric drugs. At least 20 percent were taking an average of two or more psychiatric drugs. Missouri spent more than $81 million on psychiatric drugs for foster children in the last five years. Antipsychotics account for more than half of the state’s spending on psychiatric medication for foster children.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Missouri, prescription records indicate that foster children as young as 2 have been given antipsychotics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sign CCHR’s Petition to\u00a0Prevent the Dangerous Psychotropic Drugging of California’s Foster Care Youth\u00a0<\/span><\/span>here<\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact your state legislators and let them know what you think about this; urge them to do something about drugging our most vulnerable children with harmful and addictive psychotropic drugs<\/a>. Find your Missouri legislators here<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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