Psychotropic Medication Use in Foster Care Children Comes Under Scrutiny

Psychotropic Medication Use in Foster Care Children Comes Under Scrutiny
Nationwide one in four children in foster care is administered at least one psychotropic drug.
Medicaid is the country’s largest payer for antipsychotics, with 80% of all antipsychotic prescriptions.
Foster children receiving antipsychotics can be victimized by the drugs’ risky health side effects.
Children and youths are also put at risk of tardive dyskinesia, an incapacitating movement disorder.
Increasing the penalties for those high prescribers to vulnerable foster children is a much-needed deterrent.
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