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Report: Thousands in foster care receive psychiatric drugs without basic safeguards

(Mark Lennihan | The Associated Press) In this March 21, 2006 file photo, pills move through a precision weighing machine at a pharmaceutical manufacturers trade show in New York.  A federal watchdog agency says thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without required safeguards.

(Mark Lennihan | The Associated Press) In this March 21, 2006 file photo, pills move through a precision weighing machine at a pharmaceutical manufacturers trade show in New York. A federal watchdog agency says thousands of foster children may be getting powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed to them without required safeguards.