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Trump’s detention centers caught drugging and starving kids
Photo by: Andrew Harrer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Trump’s detention centers caught drugging and starving kids
By
Oliver Willis
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July 21, 2018
2 Comments
5968
More and more children are at risk of unauthorized drugging, hunger, dehydration and physical assault in shelters and detention centers, thanks to Trump's cruel border policies.
Children being held in immigration detention have been subject to drugging without parental consent, a dangerous practice more children are likely to encounter thanks to Trump.
The decision to prosecute all border crossers and rip families apart as a result means more children have been sent to detention facilities. In some of these facilities, reports indicate drugging children to control their behavior without parental consent.
ProPublica reports that since children in the shelters are alone and unaware where their parents are, staffers at facilities have acted “unilaterally, imposing psychotropic drugs on children who don’t know what they’re taking or what its effects may be.”
Dr. Amy Cohen, a psychiatrist, told the outlet the medications are a danger to children “with growing brains and growing bodies,” and highlighted the danger parental absence can have on well-being.
Photo by: Andrew Harrer/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Trump’s detention centers caught drugging and starving kids
By
Oliver Willis
-
July 21, 2018
2 Comments
5968
More and more children are at risk of unauthorized drugging, hunger, dehydration and physical assault in shelters and detention centers, thanks to Trump's cruel border policies.
Children being held in immigration detention have been subject to drugging without parental consent, a dangerous practice more children are likely to encounter thanks to Trump.
The decision to prosecute all border crossers and rip families apart as a result means more children have been sent to detention facilities. In some of these facilities, reports indicate drugging children to control their behavior without parental consent.
ProPublica reports that since children in the shelters are alone and unaware where their parents are, staffers at facilities have acted “unilaterally, imposing psychotropic drugs on children who don’t know what they’re taking or what its effects may be.”
Dr. Amy Cohen, a psychiatrist, told the outlet the medications are a danger to children “with growing brains and growing bodies,” and highlighted the danger parental absence can have on well-being.
