Videos – Investigative Reports
~ 20-20: Generation Meds (Foster Children Being Over Medicated) – YouTube
- ~ Foster Kids Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs – YouTube
- ~ Overmedication in Foster Care l Hidden America- Generation Meds – PART 1-3 – YouTube
- ~ (Overmedication in Foster Care l Hidden America- Generation Meds – PART 2-3 – YouTube
- ~ Overmedication in Foster Care l Hidden America- Generation Meds – PART 3-3 – YouTube
~ Psychotropic Drugs on Foster Children ABC 20-20 2 Dec 2011 – YouTube
~ The Watch List – The Medication of Foster Children – Season 1 – PBS – VIDEO
~ Drugging Our Kids – Mercury News – YouTube
~ Drugging Our Kids (Trailer) – YouTube
Videos – News
~ 3 year old prescribed six psychotropic drugs in CPS’ care – YouTube
~ 4-year-old Texas girl taken from parents and heavily drugged by Child Protective Service – YouTube
~ Doctors misprescribe drugs to foster children – YouTube
~ Druging Foster Kids (for Fun & Profit) – YouTube
~ Foster children as young as one on psychotropic drugs – YouTube
~ Foster children prescribed more psychiatric drugs – YouTube
~ Foster Kids Drugged with Massive Pharmaceutical Cocktails! – YouTube
~ Foster kids over-medicated – YouTube
~ Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing foster children – YouTube
~ Proper medical plan lacking for many foster kids – YouTube
~ See why boy’s story brings anchor to tears – USA TODAY – YouTube
~ Use of psychotropic drugs in foster children – YouTube
Videos – Independent Reports
~ Dark Secrets: Why Children Are Being Deliberately Drugged In Foster Care – YouTube
~ Psychiatric Drugging of Foster Children—One Kids Story – YouTube
Mainstream News
- ~ 4-year-old Texas girl taken from parents and heavily drugged by Child Protective Services — RT USA News
- ~ A dilemma- medications for foster kids – Boston Globe
- ~ A third of foster children on psychotropic drugs in some states received no oversight, study finds – USA Today
- ~ ABC News Investigation- Diane Sawyer and Sharyn Alfonsi to Report on the Overmedication of Children in the U.S. Foster Care System – ABC News
- ~ After a Turbulent Childhood, on a Path to a Healthier Life – The New York Times
- ~ Antipsychotics for Foster Kids- Most Commonly Prescribed Meds – ABC News
- ~ Another Prescription Drug Abuse Problem- The Overmedication of Foster Kids – HuffPost
- ~ Are Drugs Being Misused On Foster Kids? – CBS News
- ~ Before prescribing antipsychotic drugs to foster children, California doctors will soon need authorization – Daily News
- ~ Big Pharma’s Troubling History of Pushing Drugs on Foster Kids – San Antonio Current
- ~ Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds – ABC News
- ~ Too Many Children In Foster Care Are Getting Antipsychotic Meds – NPR
- ~ California Approves Laws To Cut Use Of Antipsychotics In Foster Care – NPR
- ~ California rejects thousands of requests for antipsychotic drugs for poor kids, foster youth – The Mercury News
- ~ California’s foster care prescribers fuel the medication of vulnerable kids with antipsychotics – Daily News
- ~ Calif. group homes drugging children to keep them docile ‘We sometimes don’t know who put kids on drugs’ (1998) – Baltimore Sun
- ~ Chemical straitjackets: Lawsuit claims Missouri foster kids prescribed too many meds – KCUR 89.3 – NPR in Kansas City
- ~ Colorado responds slowly to psychotropic drug use among foster kids – The Denver Post
- ~ Delaware foster kids prescribed drugs at higher levels – Delaware Online
- ~ Despite National Concern Over Psych Drugs For Foster Youth, New York City Says It Lacks Key Data – The Imprint
- ~ ‘Disturbed’ kids at city foster-care center ‘drugged’ at hospital – New York Post
- ~ Doctors Put Foster Children at Risk With Mind-Altering Drugs – ABC News
- ~ Down the Hatch – Houston Press
- ~ Drug over-prescription plagues at-risk youths in NM – Albuquerque Journal
- ~ Drugged as Children, Foster-Care Alumni Speak Out Use of Powerful Antipsychotics on Youths in Such Homes Comes Under Greater Scrutiny – WSJ
- ~ Drugging our kids: California doctors heavily use drugs to treat abused children – Press Enterprise
- ~ Drugging our kids: Children in California’s foster care system are prescribed risky medications – Los Angeles Daily News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids: Foster care bill targets excessive prescribing of psychiatric drugs – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids: Governor signs bills to curb psych drugs prescribed to California foster youth – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids – Part 1: Children in California’s foster care system are prescribed unproven, risky medications at alarming rates – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids – Part 2: D’Anthony’s Story – Foster care was a life of mind-numbing medications, head-spinning moves and, ultimately, heart-wrenching loneliness — until one adult finally listened and helped him realize there might be a better path – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids – Part 3: THE Rx ALLIANCE THAT DRUGS OUR KIDS The doctors get rewarded, the drug companies get rich and foster children get more meds – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids – Part 5: The Documentary – Anguish and resilience – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids – Part 6: The Drug Docs – California’s top foster care prescribers are fueling the medication of vulnerable kids. Now, lawmakers are on the cusp of reining in the practice – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids- Part 7- Treating Tasia – Neglected as a child, Tasia Wright wanted love and understanding. But her foster care doctor had a different idea of how to treat her trauma. – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugging Our Kids- More coverage – The Mercury News
- ~ Drugs for schizophrenics regularly dispensed to foster kids – Fox News
- ~ Drugs for schizophrenics regularly dispensed to foster kids – Reuters
- ~ Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to youths in Foster Care – The New York Times
- ~ Federal study finds alarming use of antipsychotics among nation’s poor children, foster kids – The Mercury News
- ~ Feds Pay for Drug Fraud- 92 Percent of Foster Care, Poor Kids Prescribed Antipsychotics Get Them for Unaccepted Uses – HuffPost
- ~ Foster care kids put on too many psych drugs, report says – CBS News
- ~ Foster children prescribed psychiatric drugs without safeguards, U.S. says: One in 3 foster kids from a sample of states were prescribed psychiatric drugs without treatment plans or follow-up, standard steps in sound medical care. – NBC News
- ~ Foster Kids Are Overly Medicated, Report Says – Fox News
- ~ Foster kids drugged at a higher rate – USA Today
- ~ Foster kids get more antipsychotics: study – Reuters
- ~ Foster Kids Given Psychiatric Drugs At Higher Rates – NPR
- ~ Foster kids increasingly prescribed antipsychotics for ADHD – Boston Globe
- ~ Foster Kids’ Place to Hope: Agency Aims to Reduce Meds – ABC News
- ~ Is the Drugging of Foster Kids the New Norm? – TheBlaze
- ~ Lawsuit alleges state overuses drugs on foster youth – Columbia Daily Tribune
- ~ Lawsuit: Foster Kids Aren’t Protected From Psychotropic Meds – US News
- ~ Lawsuit: Foster kids aren’t protected from psychotropic meds – Washington Times
- ~ Lawsuit over drugs for Missouri’s foster kids proceeds – AP
- ~ Maine foster kids aren’t protected from psychotropic meds, lawsuit says – WGME
- ~ Many foster kids were drugged without oversight: report – Salon.com
- ~ Mind-Altering Psych Drugs for a 7-Year-Old – ABC News
- ~ Missouri Drugs Foster Children to Keep Them Docile – Newsweek
- ~ Missouri Has 23% Of Its Foster Kids On Strong Psychoactive Drugs. A Lawsuit Claims The State Isn’t Keeping Records – Buzz Feed News
- ~ Missouri Keeps Foster Kids in a ‘Chemical Straight Jacket,’ Alleges Lawsuit – Reason.com
- ~ Missouri overuses psychotropic drugs on foster children, federal suit claims – stltoday.com
- ~ Missouri sued for over-exposing foster children to psychotropic drugs – Raw Story
- ~ Missouri sued over psychotropic drugs for foster care kids – AP
- ~ Missouri works to settle lawsuit on medicine for foster kids – The Star
- ~ New study finds that drugs for schizophrenics are regularly dispensed to foster kids – Business Insider
- ~ New Study Shows U.S. Government Fails to Oversee Treatment of Foster Children With Mind-Altering Drugs – ABC News
- ~ Ohio doesn’t adequately track foster kids’ psychotropic and opioid drug prescriptions, report finds – cleveland.com
- ~ Opinion – Foster children are frequently overmedicated – The Washington Post
- ~ Over-medication in foster care at issue – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ~ Overmedicating Children in Foster Care – HuffPost
- ~ Pa. Study: Kids in Foster Care 3 Times As Likely To Get Psych Drugs – CBS Philly
- ~ Rampant medication use found among L.A. County foster, delinquent kids – Los Angeles Times
- ~ Regulation needed to curb overprescribing of drugs for children, say advocates – Daily News.url
- ~ Strayhorn to probe foster system’s use of drugs – STAT
- ~ Study finds misuse of antipsychotics for poor children, foster kids in California, 4 other states – Daily News
- ~ Study- Foster Children Frequently Prescribed Antipsychotic Drugs – Parents
- ~ Taxpayer money used to overmedicate foster children – CBS News
- ~ The Medicated Foster Child – FRONTLINE – PBS
- ~ The Psychiatric Drugging of America’s Foster Children – HuffPost Life
- ~ The U.S. Has A Long History Of Drugging Distressed Kids In Its Custody – HuffPost
- ~ The Watch List: The medication of foster children – Video – PBS
- ~ Thousands of foster kids may be getting psychiatric drugs without safeguards – STAT
- ~ US probes use of antipsychotic drugs on children – Fox News
- ~ U.S. Probes Use of Antipsychotic Drugs on Children – WSJ
- ~ Use of ‘behaviour-altering’ drugs widespread in foster, group homes – The Toronto Star
- ~ Use of psychotropic drugs in foster children – KSAT
Independent News
- ~ Are Children Overmedicated? – NIMH
- ~ Are We Overmedicating Kids in Foster Care? – City Limits
- ~ California’s Foster Care System Doles Out A Shocking Amount Of Drugs – ThinkProgress
- ~ Child Watch: Overmedicating Children in Foster Care – The Washington Informer
- ~ Children in foster care three times more likely to have ADHD diagnosis — ScienceDaily
- ~ Combining stimulants with antipsychotics for foster children and adolescents- Do prescribers adhere to guidelines? – ScienceDirect
- ~ Drugging Foster Children – Fight CPS
- ~ Foster Care Abuse: Drugging Children Against Their Will – Medical Kidnap
- ~ Foster Children Given Harmful Antipsychotic Drugs – Natural Society
- ~ FOSTER KIDS DESCRIBE DRUGS’ EFFECTS PRESCRIBED PSYCHIATRIC MEDICATIONS MADE `EVERYTHING A BLUR’ FOR ONE GIRL – Pound Pup Legacy
- ~ Foster Kids Get Unneeded Psych Drugs, GAO Says – MedPage Today
- ~ Foster Kids More Likely To Be Given Psychotropic Drugs – Kaiser Health News
- ~ Foster Kids Suing for Overmedication Win Class Status – Courthouse News Service
- ~ GAO- Foster Children Prescribed Psych Drugs At Alarming Rates – Personal Liberty
- ~ GAO Study Details Massive Psychiatric Drugging Of Foster Children – Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Colorado
- ~ Govt Exposed for Forcing Foster Kids, Even Toddlers to Take Dangerous Psychotropic Drugs – The Free Thought Project
- ~ How America’s Overmedicating Low-Income and Foster Kids – Governing
- ~ Is Your Foster Child on Chemical Restraints? – CounterPunch.org
- ~ Lawyer takes on psychiatric industry for over-prescribing children – KTUU.com – Psych Rights
- ~ Many Foster Kids Are Still Being Prescribed Antipsychotic Drugs – Mad in America
- ~ Missouri Can’t Dodge Claims of Overmedicating Foster Kids – Courthouse News Service
- ~ OVERMEDICATING CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE — Children’s Defense Fund
- ~ Protecting Foster Kids from Over-Prescribing Doctors….DOJ to Require Law Enforcement to Report Officer-Involved Deaths….and More – Witness LA
- ~ Psychotropic Drugs- A Troubling Staple of Foster Care – Children’s Rights
- ~ Psychotropic Medications and Children in Foster Care – Children’s Rights
- ~ REPORT DECRIED GIVING DRUGS TO KIDS CONSULTANT STUDIED FLORIDA CENTERS FOR FOSTER CARE – Pound Pup Legacy
- ~ Risperdal, Abilify Overprescribed to Foster Children for ADHD: Study – AboutLawsuits.com
- ~ Shocker- Antipsychotic Drugs Are Being Given to Kids in Foster Care – Alliance for Natural Health
- ~ Some Texas foster kids’ doctors have ties to drug firms — MFIPortal
- ~ The drugged children of foster care – The American Thinker
- ~ The Psychiatric Drugging of America’s Foster Children – CCHR International
- ~ Too Many Foster Kids With ADHD Treated With Antipsychotic Drugs: Study – MedicineNet
Reports
- ~ A New War on Drugs- Fighting State-Sponsored Overmedication of California’s Foster Youth – Golden Gate University Law Review – PDF
- ~ Antipsychotic Treatment Among Youth in Foster Care – American Academy of Pediatrics
- ~ Antipsychotic Treatment Among Youth in Foster Care – American Academy of Pediatrics – Sci-Hub – PDF
- ~ Atypical Antipsychotic Use Among Medicaid-Insured Children and Adolescents: Duration, Safety, and Monitoring Implications
- ~ Atypical Antipsychotic Use Among Medicaid-Insured Children and Adolescents: Duration, Safety, and Monitoring Implications – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ Foster Care, Externalizing Disorders, and Antipsychotic Use Among Medicaid Youth
- ~ Foster Care, Externalizing Disorders, and Antipsychotic Use Among Medicaid-Enrolled Youths. – Psychiatric Services – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ FOSTER CHILDREN- HHS Could Provide Additional Guidance to States Regarding Psychotropic Medications – GAO – PDF
- ~ Foster Children: HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions – GAO
- ~ Foster Children- HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions – GAO -PDF
- ~ Morbid obesity and use of second generation antipsychotics among adolescents in foster care- Evidence from Medicaid — NYU Scholars
- ~ Morbid obesity and use of second generation antipsychotics among adolescents in foster care- Evidence from Medicaid – Sci-Hub.se – PDF
- ~ Ohio Did Not Ensure the Accuracy and Completeness of Psychotropic and Opioid Medication Information Recorded in Its Child Welfare Information System for Children in Foster Care – Department of Health and Human Services – OIG Report – PDF
- ~ Overmedicated: Foster Kids in Crisis – CUNY – PDF
- ~ Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drug Use Among Medicaid-Enrolled Children- Quality-of-Care Concerns – US Dept. Health and Human Services – PDF
- ~ Treatment Planning and Medication Monitoring Were Lacking for Children in Foster Care Receiving Psychotropic Medication – US Department of Health and Human Services – OIG Report
- ~ Treatment Planning and Medication Monitoring Were Lacking for Children in Foster Care Receiving Psychotropic Medication – US Dept. Health and Human Services – PDF