JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Child advocates filed a federal lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Social Services on Monday over allegations of inappropriately providing psychotropic drugs to ...

The study shows that 35% of children in the foster care system who are covered by Medicaid are prescribed psychotropic drugs. This is four times higher than the 8% of non-foster children under the ...

An audit conducted this summer revealed that children in Florida's foster care system are being prescribed powerful psychotropic medications at alarmingly high rates. In many cases, state child ...

FARGO — As a troubled foster kid bouncing from doctor to doctor, Deborah Zaun worried about the long-term effects of being on so many mental health drugs. “Every doctor I went to diagnosed me with ...

I entered the foster care system at a young age, moving many times. My experience was nothing short of a nightmare. I was told that no one loved or wanted me. Without the nurturing environment and ...

2023 JUN 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Current study results on Managed Care have been published. According to news reporting originating from Houston, ...

Powerful psychotropic drugs are still prescribed to foster children at four times the rate of non-foster youth. Government analysis of medical records has found that many foster children have been ...

A federal class-action lawsuit filed against the Maryland Department of Human Services and its Social Services Administration has focused attention on the widespread practice of prescribing powerful ...

One in three Maryland foster children are being given psychotropic medications, often without a documented psychiatric diagnosis, according to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for ...

A federal judge called Texas' use of psychotropic drugs on foster children appalling and in violation of the state's own standards. Speaking at a Wednesday hearing in the 12-year old federal foster ...