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Florida Foster Kids Are Given Powerful Medications, but Feds Find State Oversight Lacking
The powerful anti-seizure drug the 5-year-old boy had been taking for more than a year made him “almost catatonic,” his new foster mom from Florida’s Pinellas County worried. And there was no paperwork showing that the boy’s biological mother or a judge had authorized the psychotropic medication, Keppra, as required by state law. “I was caught between a rock and a hard spot,” she said. “You can’t just stop that cold turkey.” The child’s medical records showed he had seizures only when he had a fever, suggesting he was not epileptic. The foster mom asked the boy’s neurologist if they could wean him off the drug. He has not had a seizure since. The account from the fo

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