• Home
  • About CCHR
    • Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights
  • Contact Us
  • Donate

CCHR Oregon

Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights since 1969
  • Drugs
  • Electroshock
  • ADHD
  • Alternatives
  • Report Psychiatric Abuse

New Law Will Protect Oregon’s Foster Children

June 10, 2021 By Ron

Photo by Pixabay (CC0)

Oregon governor Kate Brown signed into law House Bill 2333. It directs the Department of Human Services (DHS) to report information regarding the prescription of psychotropic medications to children in foster care.

The bill, introduced at the request of Brittany Ruiz of Oregon Foster Families First, seeks to correct a long-standing problem of neglect and lack of oversight in the care of Oregon’s foster children. According to a U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, nearly 1 in 5 Oregon foster children are taking psychiatric drugs. Yet, the DHS has not tracked this information for the children entrusted to its care. The lack of oversight has resulted in an extraordinary number of foster children taking psychiatric drugs, many of which are not approved for pediatric use.

One drug with serious side effects, often leads to many more. The child can be left in much worse shape than the original condition that was being treated. According to Brittany Ruiz,

In Yamhill County, I met with the District Manager who signs off on all prescriptions. She had no clue one of her foster kids was on 8 different psychiatric medications, each new med attempting to fix a side effect of the first med. In Multnomah County many kids were found on 5 or more. Once again those managers “did not know“.

In another case, a DHS contracted psychiatrist signed off on meds without having ever met the child, skipped months of follow up, and failed to check in on the child’s well-being as she was placed in several mental health facilities.

Children placed in foster care arrive there traumatized. A stable home, patience and understanding will often achieve more than psychiatric drugs used as an expedient to dealing with a troubled child. This law will go a long way toward correcting this practice by requiring oversight that will expose this kind of abuse.

Filed Under: Children, News

News & Events

New Law Will Protect Oregon’s Foster Children

Oregon governor Kate Brown signed into law House Bill 2333. It directs the Department of Human Services (DHS) to report information regarding the prescription of psychotropic medications to children in foster care. The bill, introduced at the request of Brittany Ruiz of Oregon Foster Families First, seeks to correct a long-standing problem of neglect and […]

How to Sell Fairy Tales as Science

What do Munchkin Land and the DSM-5 have in common? A lot, as you will see. The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual is the American Psychiatric Association’s latest attempt to legitimize itself. At first glance it is most imposing. Each of its 567 mental disorders carries its own code, symptoms and diagnoses […]

Robin Williams – Another Comedy of Errors

When he committed suicide on August 11, 2014 comedy icon Robin Williams joined a long list of artists who suffered tragically at the hands of psychiatrists. On the surface, Williams’ death seemed straightforward. According to USA Today’s website, the Marin County coroner’s report ruled his death as a “suicide by hanging, with no evidence of […]

Psychiatric drugging of kids

Drugging our Children: Side Effects

20 million children are taking psychiatric drugs, and parents, legislators and the general public are not being given the documented risks from international drug regulatory agencies and medical journals. CCHR has created a one of a kind psychiatric drug database containing all international warnings and studies on psychiatric drugs in an easy to search online […]

Thomas Szasz on ADHD

ADHD is not a disease

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment. CCHR Co-founder, Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus

CCHR logo green 300x300

Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights

All human rights organizations set forth codes by which they align their purposes and activities.  The Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights … Continue reading...

Blogroll

  • AbleChild
  • CCHR International
  • ECT Justice
  • Gwen Olsen the Rx Reformer
  • International Campaign to Ban Electroshock (ICBE)
  • M.O.M.S. Movement
  • MindFreedom International
  • PsychDisorders.org
  • Psychiatric Drug Side Effects
  • Rethinking Psychiatry
  • Thomas Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Repsonsibility

Pages

  • About CCHR
  • Alternatives
  • Big Pharma – Define “Better”
  • CCHR: What we believe
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • Drugging our Children: Side Effects
  • Mental Health Declaration of Human Rights
  • Privacy Policy
  • Psychiatric Drug Side Effects
  • Psychiatric Drugs and Children
  • Report Psychiatric Abuse
  • The Origins of Electroshock “Therapy”

Categories

  • ADHD
  • Children
  • Drugs
  • Electroshock
  • Events
  • News
  • Uncategorized
  • Violence

Mailing Address

CCHR Oregon 
PO Box 6662
Aloha, OR 97078
Phone: 503-228-3279