STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Shoddy record-keeping by the Department of Juvenile Justice is hampering the agency’s own investigation into the dosing of jailed children with powerful antipsychotic drugs, the department’s head told a top state lawmaker this week.

STATE OF CONFUSION ON CHILD DRUGGING

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

The State of Florida has been ordering juvenile inmates within the states facilities to be drugged with adult doses of anti-psychotics, creating a tranquilizing affect. Some are guessing the pills are used to save on prison guards due to budget cuts.

Florida’s juvenile zombie prisons

Haunts: Florida has a drug problem

Haunts: Florida has a drug problem

The State of Florida, the so-called Sunshine State, has a drug problem, a drug crisis actually. The State seems hooked on psychotropic drugs for children. And not just any children. The most vulnerable children. Foster children. Children in prison. Children in various forms and modes of `custody’.

Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style

They’re children of the new Florida ethic. Zombie kids warehoused on the cheap in the state’s juvenile lock-ups. Kept quiet, manageable and addled senseless by great dollops of anti-psychotic drugs.

Creating juvenile zombies, Florida-style

Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors

In Florida's juvenile jails, psychiatrists entrusted with diagnosing and prescribing drugs for wayward children have taken huge speaker fees from drug makers - companies that profit handsomely when doctors put kids on antipsychotic pills.

Dosed in juvie jail: Drug firms pay state-hired doctors

Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids

Florida has plied children in state juvenile jails with heavy doses of powerful antipsychotic medications.

Huge doses of potent antipsychotics flow into state jails for troubled kids