Remember Rebecca Riley? The four-year old who died of a clonidine overdose at the hands of her parents, Michael and Carolyn Riley, on December 13, 2006? This utterly tragic cautionary tale reached its final conclusion this week, with the announcement of a $2.5 million settlement to be paid by the Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist Dr. Kayoko Kifuji, who prescribed the clonidine and depakote cocktail as treatment for Rebecca’s attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder.
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