For children receiving psychotropic medications, the federal audit showed that 16% of their case records did not contain consent forms for those drugs.

State appeals court was asked to review the decision allowing administration of psychotropic meds without the patient’s informed consent.

Judge Dolly Gee found that U.S. government officials have been giving psychotropic medication to migrant children at a Texas facility without first seeking the consent of their parents or guardians.

HHS, the department that includes ORR, declined to comment when asked how it handles informed consent and how many children in its shelters were on psychotropic medications.

A judge ruled the government must get consent before giving psychotropic drugs to migrant kids. Here's what we know about their effect ...

Although guardians are already required to consent to the prescription of psychotropic medications, the legislation would define what that consent actually means.

Bill would require parents' written consent for psychotropic medications An Illinois lawmaker is pushing a new bill that would ensure parents have the final say before their kids are prescribed ...

The overprescription of powerful psychotropic medication to foster children is a national epidemic — yet in Colorado, efforts to curb the problem lag some states.

HHS, the department that includes ORR, declined to comment when asked how it handles informed consent and how many children in its shelters were on psychotropic medications.

President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy stands to create a zombie army of children forcibly injected with medications that make them dizzy, listless, obese and even incapacitated, according to ...

TRENTON — One patient, restless from forced injections of psychotropic drugs, is said to constantly pace the halls of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, wearing down the skin on his legs. Another ...