Psych Drugging Foster Children Florida Senate Comm Pt 1/2, Gabriel Myers Bill
September 8, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs – Psychotropic Drug Use Among Foster Children. Oct 7, 2009. Senators committee to discuss SB2718 after death of Gabriel Myers. Children are not given traditional therapy but instead are subjected to extreme psychotropic drugging. Point made that psychiatry is not what it used to be and has resorted to drugging; the move away from psychiatry which should be replaced with more traditional use of psychologists for therapy if needed – attachment disorder, trauma therapy. Leigh Donaldson: Psychiatric drugging of American children is cause for alarm; The use of powerful drugs to treat younger and younger patients has gone far beyond disturbing. www.ahrp.org and at www.pressherald.com One reckless psychiatrist, two children dead, how many more child casualties before psychiatrists’ irresponsible and deadly prescribing practices are reined in? www.ahrp.org Florida Senate 2010 SB 2718. By Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and Senator Storms. A bill to be entitled An act relating to the provision of psychotropic medication to children in out-of-home placements. www.flsenate.gov In Memory of 7 Year Old Gabriel Myers: In wake of childs suicide, Legislature moves to limit foster cares reliance on psychiatric drugs. March 19, 2010. St. Petersburg Times, By Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer. TALLAHASSEE, Fl. – A year after a 7-year-old boy heavily medicated on powerful psychiatric drugs hanged himself …
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It used to be a CRIME, to give those drugs to a child under 18. Doctors in 1970’s lost their licence and went to prison, if caught giving pscho drugs to children. Several “hospitals” , like Long View, Wash. which did routinely were doing it “Secretly” were closed. The Admin and doctors who still do this should be arrest, tried and hung publically. Better to give the kids back to the NCP, than to drug them down. Drugging kids is not “Protection”.
I like this woman, god bless u for standing up for these kids.