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PRINTABLE PAGE Advocates Alarmed By Drugs Used For Kids Medicaid children under 6 at issue By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, May 7, 2001 Almost 600 Florida Medicaid recipients under age 6 were given powerful psychiatric drugs…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Few Psychotropics Have Data for Use in Children By Betsy Bates, Los Angeles BureauOriginally published in Pediatric News 33(3):27, 1999 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Just because the Food and Drug Administration has approved a psychotropic drug for use in…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Report Decried Giving Drugs to Kids Consultant studied Florida centers for foster care By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally Published in The Miami Herald, May 11, 2001 A consultant hired by the state Department of Children & Families to study…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Foster Workers Can’t OK Kids’ Pills Only parent, judge can approve use, agency decides By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, May 1, 2001 State child welfare workers have been forbidden to approve psychiatric drugs for…
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PRINTABLE PAGE ‘Cadillac’ Plan New Foster Kid Approach Program aims at drug treatment By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, June 2, 2001 TALLAHASSEE — A panel of doctors, social workers and advocates is developing what they call…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Advocates Criticize Medicating Foster Kids Treatment raises claims of misuse By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally published in The Miami Herald, April 12, 2001 Hard-to-manage children in Florida’s troubled foster care system routinely are being prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs as…
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PRINTABLE PAGE City Agency’s Psych Drugs Imperil Foster Kids By Douglas MonteroOriginally published in the New York Post (News Columnists “Opinion”), April 16, 2001 ERLINE KIDD doesn’t want her 8-year-old daughter to end up like a boy named Cecil Reed—a…