By Michael LaForgia
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 22, 2011
Posted: 7:51 p.m. Saturday, May 21, 2011
Florida has plied children in state juvenile jails with heavy doses of powerful antipsychotic medications.
The pills, widely viewed as the "big guns" of psychiatry, can cause suicidal thoughts and other dangerous side effects.
Yet, in state-run jails and residential programs, antipsychotics were among the top drugs bought for kids - and they routinely were doled out for reasons that never were approved by federal regulators, a Palm Beach Post investigation has found. FULL STORY
Somebody long ago named this a Pharmacaust. I maintained a page about it for a while until I forgot about it-
Doping the Kids- The Pharmacaust
"Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy" - Leonard Roy Frank
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