Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem

Sun Sentinel
Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities has its own psychotropic drug problem
July 1, 2009
By: Howard M. Talenfeld and Maria E. Abate

The use of dangerous prescription medications for children and adults in residential and group home facilities licensed by the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) is an alarming situation.

Two years before the suicide of Gabriel Myers, a foster child who was prescribed a “cocktail” of powerful psychotropic drugs, 12-year-old group-home resident Denis Maltez succumbed to serotonin syndrome after being given similar drugs.