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Watchdog slams safeguards for foster kids on psych drugs

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVARSeptember 17, 2018 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without basic safeguards, says a federal watchdog agency that found a failure to care for youngsters whose lives have already been disrupted.

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