Investigation
Chemical Restraint
Latoya entered the foster care system in Brooklyn, New York, as a baby, because her parents were young and couldn’t take care of her. She was physically abused when she was 4 by her foster parents. She was put on Seroquel, an antipsychotic drug meant to treat bipolar disorder, “when I was like 13, when I went into the group home. … And it was a high dosage, as well,” Latoya, now 31, says. The drug “made my hair fall out around the edges, and it made me extremely sleepy and drowsy.