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• n  a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions

• psychoactive drug
• consciousness-altering drug
• psychoactive substance

News & Articles

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• Resource Guide: Children in Foster Care
  The federal government has not done enough to protect America's foster children from being over-medicated with powerful mind-altering drugs, according to recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Thousands of children in the states the GAO investigated -- Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregan and Texas – were being prescribed psychiatric medications at doses higher than the ...
  Oct. 25, 2013 - ABC News