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Senator gives personal story of DFPS drugging foster kids

I learned something about Bryan state senator and Finance Committe Chairman Steve Ogden today that I didn't know: He mentioned in response to testimony before his committee that he'd been a foster parent and adopted the foster child into his own family. When the child came to them, said Ogden, he'd been prescribed all sorts of medications related to behavioral disorders that the senator and his wife didn't think were necessary. He said they had all sorts of trouble getting the Department of Family Protective Services to approve taking the child off these medications, however, because they viewed psychotropic medications as harmless and feared liability if the drugs weren't administered.This issue of overprescribing psychic drugs to kids by DFPS reaches far beyond just Ogden's example...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).