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Overmedicating young Louisiana inmates

About this story This article was originally published by The Lens, a nonprofit journalism organization covering New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Youths incarcerated across Louisiana and the New Orleans metropolitan area are getting dosed with potent antipsychotic drugs even when they have not been diagnosed with the conditions – typically, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia […]

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