Coerced medication
Coerced medication is psychiatric medication which adult patients are coerced or forced to take, or which parents of patients are forced to obtain and administer to their child.
United States
An amendment to the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was added, called "prohibition on mandatory medication". Schools may not require parents to obtain a controlled substance as a condition of attending school, receiving an evaluation or reevaluation, receiving special education services.
Diane Booth
When Vincent Booth was 6 years old and on the first day of kindergarten, the school called his mother Diane Mary Booth, at work and told her she needed to come in and have a meeting. At the meeting, with the principal, a social worker, psychologists and the and they told her she either put her son on Ritalin, or they will transfer her son to a special school. Booth took her son out of that school. She put him in another school. Everything was fine for a while until they got the records from the 1st school and the same thing happened. They told her she either put her son on Ritalin or they will transfer him to a special school. She took her son out of that school and put him in a school in Sunnyvale and they called Child Protective Services. Santa Clara County had frozen Booth's boyfriend's bank account. A week later, Child Protective Services took her son out of daycare and put him in a children's shelter on Union Avenue in San Jose, California. The children's shelter gave Vincent Ritalin without Booth's consent. After witnessing symptoms of physical abuse at the shelter, Booth took her son out of the shelter and drove to Canada. She and her son stayed there for two months until her identity was discovered and the FBI took her son back to California. Booth stayed in Canada for 3 years until she decided to go back to the United States to get her son back. She was arrested and sent to jail. She was freed after she got support from people all over the world writing letters to the District attorney