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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Tristen

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Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - TristenI took my video camera to a Foster Care Alumni meeting and asked seven foster kids to tell me about there experiences in Child Protective Services while wards of the state.One thing they all had in common was massive over drugging with psychiatric drugs.Child placement agencies, foster parents, RTCs (Residential Treatment Centers) and Therapeutic Foster Homes get paid a certain amount of money each day for taking care of a foster child. The amount of money they get paid depends on a level of care system. The more difficult the child or the more problems that child has, the more money you get. A child at the basic level of care is worth about 17 dollars a day where as a child in the highest level of care could be worth as much as a 1000 dollars a day. This puts the incentive on diagnosing children with behavior problems to justify raising their level of care. A child on psychiatric drugs is worth more than a child without problems. It is not uncommon for a foster child to be placed on many different psychotropic drugs at the same time. Some investigations have found children on as many as 13 mind altering drugs prescribed by a psychiatrists at one time. These drugs include all categories of psychiatric drugs; antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiety medications, anticonvulsants medications, etc. The SSRI drugs are commons such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac, etc. Also a number of these children described taking Risperdal, Zyprexa, Geodon and other new generation antipsychotics which have been linked to weight gain, obesity and diabetes. Visit the website for the Foster Care Alumni of America. http://www.fostercarealumni.or... video was produced by psychetruth. http://www.youtube.com/psychet... http://www.myspace.com/psychtr... http://www.livevideo.com/psych... video may be copied, publicly displayed or used for any strictly non-commercial use provided it remain in it's full unedited form. Alteration or commercial use is strictly prohibited. Copyright 2007 Zoe Sofia.

Channel: Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: psychetruth

Length: 09:58
Rating: 4.88
Views: 10573

Tags: abuse  antidepressants  care  child  children  cps  drug  foster  health  illness  mental  protective  Psychiatry  services  SSRI  

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WHATKIDS123456 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
See dude...if your reading this theres more people that caree about uu
Dotveoh (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
poor guy... my mother is Psychiatrists and i'm a med student. an anti-psychiatry attitude will not help you... if you are still suffering from a depression you should on meds but it sound like you are suffering from bipolar. you should try OLANZAPINE. You need help and don't turn down the people who are trying to help you. i hope you can prove them wrong. my heart goes out to you. be strong.
cubetronic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yahoo im cubetronic
80s90shousemami76 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
how old are u? if u need someone to talk to im here for u...im a mother of a 5 yr old ...im here for u!!!
80s90shousemami76 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is so sad ...GOD BLESS YOU
jtucci12044 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Tristen my heart goes out to you,Iknow what your going through and I would love to abuse those people that abused you. I went through foster care myself and had to take meds.
nikkidee300 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is a good kid with a good heart. I wish I could adopt him! He's NOT a throw-away! Tristin, I am praying for you. You're a beautiful young man. Turn around and help someone else in foster care as soon as you are able.
alohatraveler (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This story is very alarming. I have worked with Foster Children in a number of capacities. I noticed several of the girls had numerous meds as mentioned in the this video. But.. there was only one that I thought really needed meds. I didn't understand why there was a med to help control anger. I figure, if you are angry, maybe you have something to be angry about! Thanks for sharing your story and I believe that you can be anything you want! Go for it!
cubetronic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Tristen, it's awesome that you did this documentary. you are on top now- helping the world by speaking up. thank you. it's an encouragement to me. the state locked my dad up for what he did- fine, but they convinced him to divorce my mom and stay away from his children by offering him a lighter sentence.my family has been on medication all my life, and now my wife of all people wants me on medication. so i took seroquil and it was horrible. i could only take it 1 day before i said No Way.
kareem6133 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
no one understands that there r 2 parts to foster care; placing the child in a loving and caring home and then treating that child for all of the psychological effects that foster care will have on him at the moment and most definitely, in the future. Fostered children need so much more support than i think is currently being offered and i hope i can be of help to someone who is suffering the pain of being a fostered child.

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