Foster kids given psychotropic s at three times the rate of youth overall

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Study: Pa. foster children given certain drugs at high rate
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Jun 16 - 1:51pm
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania foster children take psychotropic medications and antipsychotics at a far higher rate than other youth in the state, a study released Tuesday found.

School-aged children in foster care use psychotropic drugs meant to treat mental and behavior disorders at nearly three times the overall rate for youth in the state's Medicaid system, according to a study by the state Department of Human Services and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The study, which used Medicaid data from 2007-2012, found 43 percent of foster children ages 6-18 being given the medications, compared with 16 percent of the overall youth population.

"The research confirms our concerns and shows an unacceptable use of these medications for children in foster care," Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas said.

The rate for antipsychotics drugs, a subset of psychotropics used for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder other conditions, was four times higher for foster children — 22 percent vs. 5 percent, the study found.

More than half of youth antipsychotic users in the study had a diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but no other diagnosis that warranted the use of antipsychotics, the study's authors said.

The study found the use of multiple classes of medications in combination occurred at a four times higher rate — 12 percent vs. 3 percent — for foster children than all youth in Medicaid and that foster children using psychotropic drugs were less likely to have visited a health care providers for their behavioral concerns.

It also found that children ages 3-5 used psychotropic medication and multiple classes of medications at a significantly lower rate, but that the rate for children in foster care was double the overall youth rate.

Dallas said the Department of Human Services will offer telephone consulting to medical providers, update assessment tools and revise consent guidelines for prescribing and create an electronic dashboard to monitor psychotropic drug usage.

"While we know that many children benefit from medication, we also need to invest in proven alternatives, since too many children continue to be prescribed medications for non-approved indications," study co-author Kathleen Noonan said.

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[SPECIAL REPORT] A $1 Billion Agenda 21 Ghost City Is Being Built In New Mexico

Imagine if you would, a sprawling city in the middle of the desert with technologically advanced roads, buildings, homes, street lights, and cars that drive themselves, without humans. A sustainable living project, of course without such a label, known as CITE (Center for Innovation and Technology Evaluation) is being built in the New Mexico desert.

The project is being financed by Pegasus Global Holdings, which is in bed with government agencies such as the Department of Defense, Marine Corps, and White Sands Missile Range.

Also involved in this advanced Ghost City, is the Department of Homeland Security.

The first of its kind real life Sim City, will have drones, driver-less cars and will include tall office buildings, narrow alleys, parks, houses, churches and, a simulated interstate highway. The project is a live testing ground of a city with a population of 35,000 people. Is there more to this than meets the eye?

In short, Agenda 21 is a "non-binding" action plan developed and run by the united nations, implemented at the local level. It is sustainable living where humans have no freedoms or rights, and must conform to a living structure straight out of George Orwell's 1984. A technocrats dream, where our energy output can be taxed and regulated, and mega cities are jam packed with humans in a technologically advanced city that is controlled. Quite literally. - Will it ever come to fruition? Let's hope not. (Note: This description is Agenda 21 at it's worst, pulling in to the plan all other programs with Agenda 21, this what you would get at as a result.)

CITE-CITY, could very well be the first real world laboratory where the technocrats get to test their dream of a techno-controlled city that is nearly fully automated. Looking into the ghost city planned for New Mexico, it is hard to find in-depth descriptions and plans on exactly what scientists are looking for in terms of specific studies and research, other than the ability to test cities of the future in a controlled environment. The experiments could revolve around intelligent transportation systems (such as AI-enabled traffic management and roads filled with driver-less delivery vehicles), alternative energy power generation such as solar and geothermal, smart grid technologies, or experiments in the areas of data collection, sensors, public monitoring, security, and computer systems.

From the CITE website:

The planned initial core user application areas envisioned to be tested and evaluated within CITE include, but are not limited to:

  •  Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

  •  Green Energy: Alternative Energy Power Generation (e.g. Geothermal, Solar)

  •  Smart Grid Technologies

  •  Telecommunications

  •  Resource Development (e.g. Desalinization)

  •  Security

As a privately-owned, privately-operated test and evaluation center, CITE is open and accessible to a wide array of public and private customer segments - domestic and international. The structure and policies in place at CITE are specifically designed to remove legal, cultural and budgetary impediments as are currently prevalent in the process of moving beyond basic research and development activities.

At its core, CITE is about the establishment of developmental partnerships, bringing researchers from federal, university, commercial, international and other sources together to collaborate, forge relationships, and channel funded research and development into new products and partnerships.

The CITE project has received relatively low media coverage, which is suspicious for such an ambitious project that the DHS has a hand in. According to Pegasus Global "Homeland security is a key component of the plan for CITE, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure."

An Agenda 21 test city would look just like this. Although Agenda 21 has received some push back from citizens across the country, it is still a program most people know nothing about. With the public-private type approach Pegasus Holdings/CITE is using, it is much easier to get around certain restrictions a full-on government project would be subject to. Not far from the projects location, is the White Sands Missile Range, which is interesting considering CITE plans to simulate what would happen to a city if an EMP attack were to occur.

The "ghost city," will also have a sort of central nervous system, where data can be collected, or data mined, and analyzed in the Lab. Is this what we can expect in the near future for all cities?

Is this an Agenda 21 trial run? That is up to you to decide.

Screenshot of CITE Website.