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Social worker says she warned family

Testifies she also told state about drugs prescribed

By Patricia Wen
Globe Staff / January 22, 2010

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Five months before 4-year-old Rebecca Riley died from an alleged overdose of psychotropic drugs, a Weymouth social worker warned the girl’s mother that the child seemed overmedicated and contacted the state’s child protection agency to say the family relied on an alarming amount of mood-altering medications. (Full article: 692 words)

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