A judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop giving detained migrant children mind-altering drugs. Here's what they do.
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- On Monday, a federal judge found US government officials in violation of state child welfare laws for putting detained migrant children on mind-altering drugs without their guardians' consent.
- In court filings, children claimed they were either forcibly injected with drugs or made to take pills that staff members told them were vitamins.
- Most of the medications the kids took are used to treat mood disorders like depression and anxiety, but almost all of the drugs can also cause symptoms of those disorders.
On Monday, a federal judge ruled that US government officials have been violating state child welfare laws by putting detained migrant children on mind-altering drugs without their guardians' consent, the Washington Post reported.
The practice of giving psychotropic, or mind-altering, medications to migrant children was first revealed in an investigation by journalist Aura Bogado from the Center for Investigative Reporting. In her expose, Bogado reported that psychiatrist Javier Ruíz-Nazario had been prescribing the drugs to children detained at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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