The team of mental health and corrections professionals mentions youths who fail to "follow the medication orders" and revert to street drugs but nowhere in the 146-page report are the health and mental health effects of psychoactive drugs mentioned. Even though 98 percent of youth at one facility are on them, according to the report!
Nor is it clear that youth are screened for suicide after being put on drugs not before.
While the report explores poor food and dorms with no electric sockets so youth "cannot have TVs in their rooms and only walkmans" and visitor policies, it doesn't pursue one remark that actually is about psychoactive drugs: The youth who says he is pretty much "knocked out" on the antidepressant Trazadone they give him.
Like the Army report, its suggestions will keep tax dollars going to pharma even as it harms our citizens.
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