Ohio

• Civil Commitment Information about the Process for People Alleged to be Mentally Ill

• Columbus Dispatch Series: Drugged Into Submission

  • Forced medication straitjackets kids.  State: Shots needed in emergencies Critics: Children put at risk, April 24, 2005
  • Even babies getting treated as mentally ill: Prescriptions on the rise even though they haven’t been tested on children, April 25, 2005
    • Chart: What Kids Are Taking
    • Breakdown of 39,000 psych drug prescriptions to kids under Medicaid.

Last modified 5/30/2005
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