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Re: Are Foster Care Children Excessively Medicated?
Yes is all I have to say and inappropriately so. Pharmaceuticals push their shotgun drugs and don't look at the cause... Docs have 15 min to see you and "do something". Folks get direct to consumer ads on TV. As a doc I see it all the time esp in foster lids, kids from poverty, and stressed parents with little education and even the docs are only educated by the drug companies coming into your office providing free pens and lunches along with free samples it is really unfortunate... But...
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Re: How does the general public percieve Foster Children?
WOW!!! I am amazed at your excellent impulse control.... I could not have been so still listening.... I would have had to leave and would have been ill with a migraine for a day or I may have confronted less graciously .... But I love how you artfully had their engagement and then informed them they had met their first former foster child.... You are a hero!!! I totally understand the experience of stigma but I guess there is a blank spot in my intellect as to why??? I have never hid that...