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US: Foster Youth are Traumatized Enough: Why Psych Meds Should be Better Regulated (Opinion)

August 3, 2016 by Greg Cywnar

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:

US: Foster Youth are Traumatized Enough: Why Psych Meds Should be Better Regulated (Opinion)
Chronicle of Social Change – July 29, 2016
According to San Jose Mercury News’ Drugging Our Kids series, which I participated in, foster kids in California are 3.5 times more likely than other adolescents in the U.S. to be put on a psychotropic drug.
https://chronicleofsocialchange.org/child-trauma-2/foster-youth-traumatized-enough-psych-meds-better-regulated/19981

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