This is a video about how foster children are over medicated and their real issues (abuse, anger) are never addressed. I picked this article because it reminded of how women and our bodies have been overmedicated instead of our internal issues being dealt with.
It is very interesting to see how marginalized groups are being treated with medication as a solution to all our problems because no one (the doctors) want to address the sytems of oppression that are getting us anxious, and upset.
This however, is somewhat of a hopeful video in that once these children were adopted many of them were slowly weaned off of their medications.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf9U3ZcugSI
Thanks for this Melissa, I'm going to use this in my course with the 2nd years on children and youth experiencing violence....For those of you interested in issues relating to kids in care, the US released a study last year on rates of sexual abuse of kids in foster care. You can find it at Human Rights Watch's web site if you use the search engine.
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