While outrage at last month’s child suicide continues, the mother of a disabled boy contends in a new lawsuit that her son was lethally overmedicated by his psychiatrist.Amid controversy concerning the improper use of dangerous psychiatric drugs on children, a disabled boy who died was overdosed by a cocktail of psychiatric drugs, including two powerful anti-psychotic drugs, his mother claims in a lawsuit filed last week.The mother of the deceased 12-year-old filed a wrongful death and medical malpractice lawsuit, claiming the boy’s psychiatrist overmedicated him and failed to properly monitor his condition.The mother’s lawsuit was filed amid the investigation being carried out by into the suicide in April of a 7-year-old foster child who had been subjected to a cocktail of psychiatric drugs when he hanged himself in the bathroom of his foster home. The State concerned has appointed a task force to study both the case, and the wider issue of the use of psychiatric drugs on foster kids.CHEMICAL RESTRAINTS According to the aforementioned lawsuit, the accused psychiatrist prescribed four mental health drugs: Seroquel and Zyprexa, both anti-psychotic medications; Depakote, an anti-seizure drug sometimes used to stabilize moods; and Clonazepam, a tranquilizer. The lawsuit says the drugs were used… Read full this story
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