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According to a number of foster care experts who spoke with Politics Daily, children in foster care, who are typically concurrently enrolled in Medicaid, are three or four more times as likely to be on psychotropic medications than other children on Medicaid. Alarmingly, many of these drugs are medically prohibited for minors and dangerous to the children taking them. Often young patients under state supervision are also prescribed three or four high-risk drugs at a time -- all paid for by Medicaid.
Psychotropic Drug Abuse in Foster Care Costs Government Billions
Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:23 PM EDT
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State foster care programs and child protective services have had mixed success addressing the pervasiveness of dosing their clients with prescription psychotropic drugs. Using federal Medicaid money to purchase dangerous prohibited prescriptions for children, which cost the government up to $600 per dose, is technically a violation of the law.
WHY? Because to justify their allocations of BILLIONS in federal funding for the "care & treatment" of foster children these entrenched psychiatrists use psychotropic medications as if they were babysitters & pacifiers.
There is NOTHING LOWER than an adult "professional" & seemingly respectable "Dr." making a fortune off the backs of children.
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