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FDA warns psychiatrist who treated dead foster child

Miami Herald BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER MENTAL HEALTH FDA warns psychiatrist who treated dead foster child The psychiatrist who treated the Broward foster child who killed himself last year is now in hot...

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Bills worry child advocates

Daytona Beach News Journal By DEBORAH CIRCELLI DAYTONA BEACH — While social service agencies brace for more cuts this legislative session, many are following dozens of bills dealing with everything...

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In wake of child’s suicide, Legislature moves to limit foster care’s reliance...

St. Petersburg Times By Cristina Silva, Times Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE — A year after a 7-year-old boy heavily medicated on powerful psychiatric drugs hanged himself in his Margate foster home,...

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Vigil will be held in memory of boy

St. Petersburg Times CLEARWATER Times staff One of four statewide candlelight vigils in memory of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, a foster child in state care who reportedly hanged himself while on three...

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Amendment to bill targeting foster kids’ medication draws fire

Miami Herald Critics are questioning an amendment to a bill designed to protect foster children from being inappropriately medicated with mental-health drugs. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER One of the largest...

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Effort to protect children from overmedication fails

Miami Herald The product of state child welfare administrators’ half-year of soul-searching, a bill to protect foster kids from powerful mental health drugs is killed by doctors. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER...

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Drug’s use again in spotlight

Miami Herald The mother of a Broward teen who died in 2003 believes it was because of an anti-psychotic drug he should not have been prescribed. BY NIRVI SHAH A Broward doctor reprimanded by the Food...

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Foster kids lose

Miami Herald OUR OPINION: Still subject to over use of psycho-tropic drugs State Sen. Rhonda Storms, a Valrico Republican, put up a Herculean fight on behalf of Florida’s foster kids this week, but a...

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So much bluster, but foster kids’ drug nightmare continues

Miami Herald By Fred Grimm Gabriel Myers died for nothing. His shocking death supposedly galvanized Florida. It would mean something, this suicide of a foster kid who had been drugged into...

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Concern over high medication rate among foster kids – Review of kids’ psych...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution By April Hunt While in foster care, Giovan Bazan, now 20, says he was put on Ritalin, anti-depressants and sleeping pills. At 18, he elected to stop all drugs, and says he...

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