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| Where’s the oversight of psychiatric meds for Pennsylvania's youth offenders? |
| By timesonline.com- Halle Stockton |
| Published: 11/10/2015 |
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Pennsylvania is lagging when it comes to tracking the powerful psychiatric medications kids get in the state’s youth correctional facilities. While other states have reformed the way they control and track such medications so that it is done systemwide, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services follows only the total amount paid for the drugs prescribed in its six facilities on a systemic basis. Everything else is looked at on an individual resident and facility basis. Experts and officials in other states say the fragmented approach reduces the department’s ability to see patterns and to plan effective programs. A PublicSource investigation found that psychiatric medications are being given at alarmingly high rates to the confined youth. The most powerful and risk-laden class of psychiatric drugs, the anti-psychotics, was ordered in amounts that could treat an average of one-third of those in the state facilities at any given time over the seven years studied. Read More. |
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