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Forced Drugging of Children in Foster Care: Turning Child Abuse Victims into Involuntary Psychiatric Patients

M. McKay, Ph.D.

Abstract the use of psychotropic medication by children and youth within the child welfare system is examined.  The increasing use of these medications by this population is presented as problematic through a case study and by identifying general aspects of the social systems that have contributed to its development and entrenchment.  The needs of children and youth in the child welfare system, the influence of the pharmaceutical industry and historical trends in child psychiatry supplement a narrative of a child who was misdiagnosed as severely mentally disturbed and subjected to intense psychotropic medication. The article concludes by stating that resisting the forces that attempt to enforce the use of psychotropic medication by these children and youth is possible through self-education and assertive advocacy for non-chemical alternatives. 

Introduction Imagine getting ready for bed each night, your feet feeling as if they were made of lead. You worry that you might not make it to the bathroom in time.  Imagine getting the same persistent ideas every night that there are spiders under your pillow and in your chest of drawers.  You try to think, but your thoughts escape and you can’t recapture them. Imagine that you have nightmares when you fall into a hazy, dizzy sleep and that some of those nightmares you know are real-someone groping at you and violating you but no one listens or believes you.  Imagine waking up each morning with a 

dry mouth, aching bones, pains in your stomach, and blood in your underwear.  Another day of taking a fistful of pills, your “happy vitamins” which are neither vitamins nor do they make you happy.  You also must take your other medicines to relieve your constipation, to relieve your acid indigestion, to treat your skin rashes.  You have a poor appetite and your muscles are wasting. Your complexion has a grey pallor to it.  You are a weakling and there is no one around who loves you.  The people who love you are also weak.  They cannot help you and they are kept from you as much as possible. This startling description is of a nineyear old boy in the custody of child welfare services who, like many other children, was diagnosed with non-existent multiple mental disorders and then prescribed mind-numbing, physically debilitating psychiatric medications known as psychotropics. These children are housed in dormitories where other abused and neglected children of varying ages can perpetuate the same abuse that they have experienced onto other younger, more vulnerable children. This is what happened to one boy named Jay2 and, unless something is done to stop it, it will continue to happen to other children.3  

How This Situation Arose The vulnerability of these children and the extreme harm that psychotropic abuse inflicts on children demand an answer as to how this situation came to be.  Without first considering this question, it will be impossible to fix the problems that endanger foster children.  Of course, cause is multifactoral: flaws in the child 

Forced Drugging of Children in Foster Care: Turning Child Abuse Victims into Involuntary Psychiatric Patients