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• Feds investigating high prescribing Fla. docs, by Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press Writer, St. Petersburg Times, December 17, 2009.
• Fla. Medicaid Patients Settle Lawsuit with State, Florida AP, September 18, 2009.
• Report of Gabriel Myers Work Group, August 20, 2009.
• Foster Boy's Suicide Offers Lessons, The Miami Herald (Editorial), August 14 2009.
• Kids need care, not pills, ex-foster children tell panel, by Amy Sherman, Miami Herald, June 19, 2009.
• Drug rules to protect kids were ignored, DCF says, by Carol Marbin Miller, The Miami Herald, Jnne 9, 2009.
• Foster Care Failures, St. Petersburg Times Editorial, June 7, 2009.
• Lawsuit links psychiatric drugs to Tamarac child's death, by Carol Marbin Miller, The Miami Herald, June 4, 2009.
• DCF's drug records suspect, by Kris Hundley and Connie Humburg, Tampa Bay Times, May 29, 2009.
• Comprehensive Neuroscience (CNS) Reports on Medicaid Kid Drugging
  • May  2007
  • April, 2006

• April 14, 2008, Ethics Complaint Against Rajiv Tandon for corruption with respect to a consensus panel on neuroleptic prescribing and related documents.

• The Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Children: A Comprehensive and Current View, by Constantine, R, Larsen B. (2007), Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida.

• The 'atypical' dilemma, Skyrocketing numbers of kids are prescribed powerful antipsychotic drugs. Is it safe? Nobody knows, by Robert Farley, St. Petersberg Times, Published July 29, 2007

• Legal Strategies to Challenge Chemical Restraint of Children in Foster Care: A Resource for Child Advocates in Florida

• Announcing formation of Florida Peer Network, Inc., an independent statewide organization of and for persons with psychiatric illnesses.

• Edwatch July 21, 2005, update on Governor Jeb Bush signing bill protecting children from psychiatric coercion.

• New law curbs drugging of kids, Miami Herald, May 5, 2005.

• PowerPoint Presentation on Civil Commitment and Civil Rights of Patients: A Seminar on Legal Psychiatry by Henry A. Doenlen, M.D.

• Florida Statewide Advocacy Council Red Item Report on Psychotropic Drug Use in Foster Care, July 2003.

• PsychSearch.Net lists Psychologists, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, Psychiatric or Mental Health Nurses, Clinical Social Workers or Psychiatrists, in Florida who have had disciplinary or other legal proceedings brought against them.

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