Charges filed over girl's medications - UPI.com
DETROIT, March 28 (UPI) -- A woman arrested after a 10-hour standoff with Detroit police says she was protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication.
Isabella Brooke Knightly and Austin Gamez-Knightly
In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Swain DSS director put on leave
Swain DSS workers banned from Cherokee
BRYSON CITY — The director of the Swain County Department of Social Services is off the job pending the outcome of a police investigation into the death of a toddler who was under the agency's care.
Read More:http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110328/NEWS01/110328041/Swain-DSS-director-put-leave?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
BRYSON CITY — The director of the Swain County Department of Social Services is off the job pending the outcome of a police investigation into the death of a toddler who was under the agency's care.
Read More:http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20110328/NEWS01/110328041/Swain-DSS-director-put-leave?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Frontpage
DCF worker pleads guilty to fibbing on report
DCF worker pleads guilty to fibbing on report | jacksonville.com
A former state Department of Children and Families investigator in Jacksonville has avoided trial by pleading guilty to falsifying a child abuse record.
A former state Department of Children and Families investigator in Jacksonville has avoided trial by pleading guilty to falsifying a child abuse record.
Ex child welfare investigator pleads guilty
Ex child welfare investigator pleads guilty - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A former child welfare investigator has pleaded guilty in Jacksonville to falsifying a child abuse record.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A former child welfare investigator has pleaded guilty in Jacksonville to falsifying a child abuse record.
CCHR STL Side Effects of psychiatric Drugs
CCHR STL Side Effects of psychiatric Drugs
Download this CCHR report:
Click here: The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs
Because violence, suicide and heart attacks can be side effects of taking or withdrawing from various psychotropic drugs, we are providing you this information as a public service.
This report is an overview of the side effects of common psychiatric drugs and includes information on drug regulatory agency warnings, studies and other reports that may not appear in the packaging information for the drugs. For further information consult the Physicians’ Desk Reference, which can be found at http://www.pdrhealth.com.
Download this CCHR report:
Click here: The Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs
Because violence, suicide and heart attacks can be side effects of taking or withdrawing from various psychotropic drugs, we are providing you this information as a public service.
This report is an overview of the side effects of common psychiatric drugs and includes information on drug regulatory agency warnings, studies and other reports that may not appear in the packaging information for the drugs. For further information consult the Physicians’ Desk Reference, which can be found at http://www.pdrhealth.com.
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About CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), public benefit organization whose purpose is to restore human rights to the field of mental health by ensuring that criminal abuses are speedily investigated and prosecuted and that people’s rights are legally protected.
The mission of CCHR is to expose and eradicate violations of human rights by the field of psychiatry
About CCHR
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), public benefit organization whose purpose is to restore human rights to the field of mental health by ensuring that criminal abuses are speedily investigated and prosecuted and that people’s rights are legally protected.
The mission of CCHR is to expose and eradicate violations of human rights by the field of psychiatry
Psychdata - Dedicated to exposing the fraud of psychiatry: Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care
Psychdata - Dedicated to exposing the fraud of psychiatry: Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care
Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care
In June of 2010, the US Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigatory arm of the Federal Government, to investigate the prevalence of prescribed psychotropic medications for children in foster care.
According to a number of foster care experts, children in foster care, who are typically concurrently enrolled in Medicaid, are three or four more times as likely to be on antipsychotic medications than other children on Medicaid. A Texas study from 2004 showed that 34.7 percent of foster children were prescribed at least one psychotropic drug with some children taking five or more.
Foster care parents receive more money if a child is on psychiatric drugs; the children are considered "special needs" children, needing a higher level of care.
Unfortunately, psychiatric drugs are not "care." Prescribing psychotropic drugs for children is especially troubling given their addictive nature and the potential side effects associated with them, including the increased risk of suicidal and violent behavior.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that House Bill 23 in the Georgia state legislature proposes to create an independent clinic review of the drugs foster children are given, which has support from both Democrats and Republicans because of its efforts to protect the vulnerable. Projections are that it will save the state millions of dollars, as Georgia spends $7.87 million per year in Medicaid funds on mind-altering psychiatric drugs for foster children.
Click here for more information about the side effects of psychiatric drugs.
Download the report "Drugging Foster Care Children" from the CCHR St. Louis website.
If you are aware of foster care children being abused by psychiatric drugs, please report this to CCHR and to the GAO.
Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care
In June of 2010, the US Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigatory arm of the Federal Government, to investigate the prevalence of prescribed psychotropic medications for children in foster care.
According to a number of foster care experts, children in foster care, who are typically concurrently enrolled in Medicaid, are three or four more times as likely to be on antipsychotic medications than other children on Medicaid. A Texas study from 2004 showed that 34.7 percent of foster children were prescribed at least one psychotropic drug with some children taking five or more.
Foster care parents receive more money if a child is on psychiatric drugs; the children are considered "special needs" children, needing a higher level of care.
Unfortunately, psychiatric drugs are not "care." Prescribing psychotropic drugs for children is especially troubling given their addictive nature and the potential side effects associated with them, including the increased risk of suicidal and violent behavior.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that House Bill 23 in the Georgia state legislature proposes to create an independent clinic review of the drugs foster children are given, which has support from both Democrats and Republicans because of its efforts to protect the vulnerable. Projections are that it will save the state millions of dollars, as Georgia spends $7.87 million per year in Medicaid funds on mind-altering psychiatric drugs for foster children.
Click here for more information about the side effects of psychiatric drugs.
Download the report "Drugging Foster Care Children" from the CCHR St. Louis website.
If you are aware of foster care children being abused by psychiatric drugs, please report this to CCHR and to the GAO.
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