I worry about medications my son takes to manage his seizures and behaviors and they are indeed powerful drugs. But this particular case they say that they gave this mother a ten-day supply and that was 35 pills, which to me says one pill twice a day and one and a half at bedtime. The night she died they apparently gave her two and a half pills of clonidine.

It's not a case of the child being overmedicated by the dr's prescribing too much medication, but rather the parents taking it on themselves to overmedicate their child to keep them out of their hair. That is what has me angry, that the parents outright overmedicated their dd to the point of OD'n.

My own son takes one and half of clonidine at bedtime and it helps him sleep, it's not a behavior medication, its a blood pressure medication giving to help keep a child calmer and give them a better chance of being able to control themselves as far as I understand the reasons of it being given at least to my child.