Foster Youth and Drugs

The flaws with drugs in our foster system

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The issue of drugs in our foster system has been a long-standing problem that is still causing disastrous effects on the children that have come out of the foster program. Since 2014, California has been working to limit the prescribing and misdiagnosing of drugs for foster youth, and the number of prescribed antipsychotic drugs has fallen.