WARNING: The Antipsychotic Drugging of Texas Foster Care and Medicaid Children Continues

Medicaid children in Texas are being given powerful antipsychotic drugs and in most cases for non-medically accepted uses. Children are often being prescribed the wrong dose, are too young to receive the drugs, being given too many drugs at one time.

In spite of a decade of attempted reforms by Texas on the drugging of foster and Medicaid children, this situation continues unabated.

Are Foster Kids Overmedicated?

Antipsychotics are the top-selling class of drugs in the United States, with sales of $14.6 billion in 2009 alone. Their use in children and adolescents in the United States is increasingly prevalent — and children in foster care are among the most likely to be medicated.