Drug Detox Q&A – Will Psych Drugs Replace Parenting For Foster-Care Kids?
Instead of the love and parental guidance that children need to develop normal emotional lives, government-paid psychiatrists armed with nothing more than batteries of psychiatric drugs — most of them untested and unapproved for children — are creating drug dependencies among millions of American kids in foster care. Unless these kids get into drug detox to escape the nightmare psych-drug trap into which they’ve been forced, a hollow life of drug dependence may be their only future. A hearing held by The House Ways and Means Committee in May focused on the widespread use of psychotropic drugs on children in foster care across the country. The committee heard appalling testimony: Two-thirds of foster care adolescents receive “treatment” for emotional and behavioral problems — far in excess of the proportion in the non-foster care population. Kids are essentially being raised by the government, not by the foster parents, who are told to bring kids to the shrinks when they “act up” in
