Participation in drug testing by children is conducted with the written consent of their parent/guardian. Many of these children are wards of the state, they have no other guardian with severable interest. Many of these children's guardian's and parent were led to believe that they would be removed from their permenant care if they would not succumb to treatment. Many of the children were removed from parental/guardian care for the custodians failure to give medication to the children.

Children in the system that refused to take medications were forced to endure the surgical placement of gastric tubes to enforce medication.

The State and system is of the mind that these children would not receive treatment otherwise if they were not part of the program. However, I am of the opinion that the system needs to take a deep look at the practices taking place in ICC and by the ACS in getting charges to take medication. I question that they are completely motivated by wanting to help the children, especially when they benefit from providing a captive test market for trial medications.