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If a doctor prescribes them, they are medically necessary. The brain is an actual organ of the physical body. Psychiatric disorders, untreated, are often life threatening. At the bare minimum, if a kid truly needs their ADD/ADHD (or juvenile antipsychotic meds), they truly need them - their judgment, their memory, their ability to reason their way out of an ordinary problem are all affected.
If a medical doctor (such as a psychiatrist) prescribes something, IMO, it's medically needed until proven otherwise and we should not be second guessing a doctor.
There are as many people who state that psychotropic medications are not required and medically necessary.
I am not arguing that there is a problem here, nor do I advocate for Lori Daybell. It is just that a court order to require psychotropic medications for a child is going to be a tall order to prove. Especially in Idaho.