JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Child advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services on Monday over allegations of inappropriately providing psychotropic drugs to ...

FARGO — As a troubled foster kid bouncing from doctor to doctor, Deborah Zaun worried about the long-term effects of being on so many mental health drugs. “Every doctor I went to diagnosed me with ...

Powerful psychotropic drugs are still prescribed to foster children at four times the rate of non-foster youth. Government analysis of medical records has found that many foster children have been ...

I entered the foster care system at a young age, moving many times. My experience was nothing short of a nightmare. I was told that no one loved or wanted me. Without the nurturing environment and ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Nearly one in four New York City foster youth ages 7 to 17 is ...

Judith Warner is the author of And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School. The statistics that came out of this week’s GAO report on psychotropic drug use among American foster ...

Foster care workers at all levels routinely ignored policies designed to protect children in their care from being given psychotropic drugs without proper consent or monitoring. That was the ...

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Children in foster systems nationwide frequently receive high doses of psychotropic medication, sometimes erroneously. Improved electronic communication could alleviate some of the over-prescribing, ...

2025 MAR 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators publish new report on Managed Care. According to news originating from Baltimore, Maryland, by ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – A recent state audit found that the Department of Children and Families (DCF) failed to update records of mental health services and human trafficking prevention measures for those in ...

Despite positive signs in reducing overuse of psychotropic medication in aged care, some areas still need urgent attention according to Macquarie University's Associate Professor Magda Raban.