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Judge Orders Trump Administration to Stop Drugging Immigrant Children

Immigrant children are suffering abusive treatment and cruel and inhumane conditions in government detention centers. (CD) U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee of Los Angeles ruled on Monday that a Texas detention center for unaccompanied immigrant children and those forcibly separated from their families by the Trump administration must stop administering psychotropic drugs without parental consent. “A federal court has now […]

Report: Foster Care Children are Highly Overmedicated, Undersupervised

A new report was issued by the California State Auditor suggesting that too many children in foster care are unnecessarily taking psychotropic drugs, and many without adequate supervision. [1]
The report focused on foster children in California, however, this is more problematic than you might expect, as the state runs the largest foster care system in the United States.