Among those interviewed on Thursday December 1, 2011 is Robert Nelson, PhD. and MD. His biography is at this link. For 24 of 26 years from 1967 to 1993 he was a student. His PhD. is from Harvard University Divinity School. His MD is from Yale Medical School. He fits the profile Obama loves, having prestigious credentials. Does he lack common sense and intgerity like most of Obama's appointees?
http://stokes.chop.edu/research/profiles/index.php?ID=926622
Watch the year-long investigation tonight Thursday Dec. 1, 2011 on "World News with Diane Sawyer" at 6:30 p.m. ET ABC
and
20/20 Friday December 2, 2011 10 PM ET ABC
[From article]
"There is an incredible push to use medications to solve these problems as if it is a magic wand."
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Medicaid spends at least $6 billion a year, nearly 30 percent of its entire drug budget, on psychiatric drugs, more than double what was spent in 1999, according to the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.
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The GAO found that Texas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, and Florida each "falls short of providing comprehensive oversight
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Critics charge that, because of their sedating properties, antipsychotics are actually being used in foster care treatment facilities as chemical restraints."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/study-shows-foster-children-high-rates-prescription-psychiatric/story?id=15058380#.TtatPYR0r8B
By DR. MARK ABDELMALEK, BRINDA ADHIKARI, SARAH KOCH, JOSEPH DIAZ and CLAIRE WEINRAUB
Nov. 30, 2011
ABC World News
Diane Sawyer
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