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- 2010
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My heart is with you and your family
that you had to experience this,
because no one is really listening to
any type of alternative
conversation regarding this.
It seems that foster children are
much more likely to be medicated
than, say, other children. Why is that?
Several reasons:
the main reason beingis, "We don't have time to deal with you."
That's my take on it. "So, what we'll do
is shut you up and we'll shut you down."
That's basically it.
Most of the kids that are placed by the
Department of Children and Family Services,
they're there because they were removed
from their homes because of abuse,
whether it be emotional abuse, physical
abuse, sexual abuse, a combination thereof.
It doesn't seem to occur to the
system that this kid is scared.
This kid, if they are a victim
already of abuse of some form,
that they already are traumatized.
And so, many of the kids
are immediately in some cases
referred to the local psychologist
and diagnosed with something
and then as a consequence
then the drugs are recommended.
What I have mentioned
to some people before
is that I have been in homes where I saw
the kids' files piled up in a worker's arms,
the files taken to the local psychiatrist,
the psychiatrist write a diagnosis,
write prescriptions and they've
never even seen the child.
Based on what they've read in the file.
Based on absolutely nothing, because
there was nothing but the manager's
or whomever case worker's word
that this kid is acting out.
So we don't even really sometimes
have anything in writing other than,
"They are not cooperating with the
program. They are crying too much at night."
"They refuse to go to school in the
morning," and that sort of thing,
just verbal information, not even any notes
that the psychiatrist can actually follow.
What type of diagnosis are they
giving? Are they calling them ADHD?
Well, always ADHD. Everybody is
ADHD, that's the beginning one.
And then bipolar. And
then manic-depressive.
For foster kids, it's
disastrous because many of them,
they're bouncing from home to home,
school to school, and they're not learning.
And so, of course, they're
learning-disordered.
And all of them are emotionally
disturbed. And all of them are ADHD.
we have probably about
50,000 kids in the system.
- And I would be willing to say...
- In the foster care system?
Yes, in Los Angeles County alone.
We're not talking Orange County,
any of the counties up north...
What percentage of those
do you think are on drugs?
from experience, well over,
somewhere between 50
percent and 75 percent.
That's astounding.
Thank you so much for everything.
Our children came from loving homes. And
we've still experienced these problems,
but as far as foster care children go,
they've all had issues and reasons that
they've been taken from their homes.
And I understand that they
are automatically put on drugs.
Certainly they have to go
through psychiatric evaluations.
So, I know you have
experience with that.
Right, yeah, actually, I
children in foster care are three times
more likely to be on a psychiatric medication
than other children
who were on Medicaid.
know. They don't know.
When you go into the foster classes,
they're told that medication is the answer.
"When your child is having
these issues, get him in."
"Get him in," those are the exact words,
"Get him in fast, so that you can
get their medication adjusted."
And then the issues continue or
the child just kind of goes numb.
- Or the children die.
- Or the children die.
When I got my little boy, he was on eight
50-milligram pills a day of Seroquel,
the antipsychotic, which for a child
under 50 pounds is really incredible.
That was on top of his ADHD medication.
He was so drugged and so violent,
and we would hide our knives
at night, our kitchen knives,
when we'd go to bed as a
family, because we were afraid
that he would get up in
the night and harm someone.
He became so bad that he actually
in one of his foster homes
slaughtered their family
pets with a kitchen knife.
home and she sees this
and she thought a burglar
had gotten into the house.
She was just distraught, "Oh my
gosh, who could have done this?"
It never even crossed her mind
that the preschooler did it.
And she figured it out that it was him.
He had gotten so violent on these medications
that he had killed her little family pets.
It was decided that he should
go to the state hospital.
And I left there and I
decided that I would try.
They said I had two
weeks to turn him around.
And then the state hospital was
still there if I couldn't do anything.
And so, I brought him into my home and the
first thing we did is tons of nutrition,
food in its most natural form, tons
of raw food, tons of whole grains.
That's what we did,
lots of real nutrition
and then we started taking
him off of his medications.
that I became known in the case
worker's office as the miracle worker.
He just made such a turnaround
and today, he's just incredible.
He skipped a grade and he still
tops out, you know, nationally,
he tests out so high, even
the grade that he's in.
He plays a couple instruments.
He's fabulous at school.
This is an exceptional child and...
And he's not showing violence toward
his sister or your family pets or?
Oh, no, oh, no. He's very
sweet with all of our pets.
We have five dogs, three
cats, and he's wonderful.
And it's just incredible to me
how many children out there are in
his exact shoes and will never...
And there aren't enough
people like you to, to care.
- No, well... - And the doctor
can just blame it on trauma.
And, or you know, if a child
commits suicide, so often it's just,
"We didn't get to them soon enough."
That's, that's what it is.
"We didn't get to them soon enough."
Because that, that takes the
blame off of them completely.
Or like my son's psychiatrist
said when her patient shot himself,
"Where'd he get a gun?"
No, looking introspectively,
"Where'd he get the will?"
So, it's just "somebody else's fault," it's
never "the medications that I prescribed."
Or, like "it was an everyday occurrence"
and I was just sitting there flabbergasted
and thinking to myself when she said,
when she was finally... had said that he
was okay to come off all his medications,
and with his Seroquel, she said,
"Wow, I am just so glad to see
that he can still imagine and play"
"because so many children who are on
this medication for any length of time"
"lose that ability to play anymore."
And I was just shocked and thought,
"How do you sleep at night?"
I can't imagine taking somebody's
creative ability from them.
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