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Need To Know | The Watch List - The Medication of Foster Children | PBS

Duration: 17:04
Program: Need to Know #135
Broadcast Date: Jan. 7, 2011

Foster children are some of the most heavily medicated children in the nation. Need to Know investigates the use and potential over-use of powerful anti psychotics in our foster care systems, focusing on Texas, which has done much to reform its practices.

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