An investigative report found that New Orleans juvenile detention centers are giving the kids potent antipsychotics four times as often as the conditions for which they were designed to treat, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, actually show up in the inmate population. People inside the system say the jails are dosing the kids because it’s easier [...]
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More than a third of foster children in Georgia are prescribed psychotropic drugs — medications like antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Because so many foster children are using the drugs, a new review aims to provide better oversight over their usage. The review is expected to reduce prescriptions of expensive psychotropic drugs within the foster care [...]
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In 2009 Federal Agencies were asked in a Freedom of Information Act Request to produce their statistics on the number of restraint and seclusion fatalities annually for the past decade. The Federal Agencies that were asked to produce these statistics were: SAMHSA TJC CMS NASMHPD and FDA In response to the FOIA, the requester was [...]
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The Palm Beach Post had a series of articles this past weekend on restraint. Here’s one showing how restraint is therapeutic especially when a child is gouging themselves, head banging or is otherwise a danger to self or others. Gail Rappaport’s students have torn her cornea, bitten her and injured her back. The veteran Palm [...]
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What do you imagine the halls of a juvenile detention facility sound like? Loud and rowdy? These youth weren’t incarcerated for being docile and submissive, after all, so it would seem highly unlikely one could find a quiet spot in such an institution, right? But, according to some, the sounds of juvenile detention centers have [...]
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More than two-thirds of state child welfare systems employ health professionals that handle the use of psychotropic drugs, but far fewer have mental health or medical directors to review usage, according to a study released today. The Boston-based Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute received information from child welfare departments in 47 states and the [...]
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Now studies are backing up anecdotal evidence that ADHD gets inappropriately applied to many children. An analysis by economist Todd Elder at Michigan State University suggests that about 900,000 children who have been told they have ADHD in America may not have the condition at all. The study will appear in the Journal of Health [...]
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SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 28 /PRNewswire/ — A recently completed investigation by the state of Indiana supports whistleblower allegations that Madison Center, a behavioral treatment organization in northern Indiana, for years actively sought troubled children to enroll in its programs to boost its Medicaid revenues but then failed to properly diagnose them and give them [...]
Near 11% increase in Rx drug spending for US children in 2009, with 5% greater usage of medications In growing numbers, children across America are adding a dose of medicine to their daily routine. In 2009, the drug trend for children – a measure of prescription spending growth – increased 10.8%, driven by a 5% [...]
June 1, 2010 | From theTrumpet.com One in four children took drugs for chronic conditions in 2009, according to a new report. Prescription drug use among youngsters in the United States is growing at nearly four times the rate as among the overall population. A new report shows that nearly a quarter of insured children [...]
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