Arizona heightens oversight of medications for foster children

Finally, Lets hope this spreads. Medicating kids out of feelings is not the way to teach foster kids social skills (per Jack Panskeep - great work about as good as Steven Porges). Play is needed for social development and kids in foster care often lacked play - so they lack the ability to learn social connectedness. Shotgun med are  simply a way to dumb down behaviors and gives kids horrible side effects (like obesity which we are supposed to be trying to prevent).  I am totally against this. In  the long run, medication management is not a cheaper way for society to deal with these kids and per training it is to be a second option after good bio-psycho-social therapy.  I grew up on welfare.  Fortunately did not need or take meds but if I were numbed down emotionally (at times that would be nice) i would have never went to med school and paid a whole lot more in taxes than the system paid for me and my siblings.  Plus many kids that don't get to learn social skills, will have poor work skills, may more likely than not need to rely on disability and this will cost society cold hard cash and lots of it...... We need to have a longer view ..... like a 401K for instance... Not just what can I do now with a pill? It is sad day for medicine and a terrible injustice to kids!!!!!