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San Jose Mercury News
Investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News
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Karen de Sa
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FROM Karen de Sa
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Foster Kids Face Overprescription of Psychiatric Drugs A new federal report finds that foster children and poor children are being prescribed an alarming number of psychiatric drugs. The report found that children as young as four years old are taking psychiatric drugs. And in California, foster kids are taking schizophrenia drugs, even when they haven’t been diagnosed with the illness. Now state lawmakers are starting to take up the issue.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Overprescribing Drugs for Foster Kids When Rochelle Trochtenberg aged out of foster care, she was on 10 different mood-stabilizing drugs to treat bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder and PTSD. Later, she learned she never had those conditions at all. It turns out, this is not uncommon for California children in foster care. According to an investigation by the San Jose Mercury News, one in four adolescents in foster care are on psychotropic drugs, more than three times the rate for adolescents overall.
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