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Monday, July 19, 2010

Florida Tells FDA: No Children In Psychotropic Trials

Florida Tells FDA: No Children In Psychotropic Trials

Last year, a 7-year-old foster boy named Gabriel Myers committed suicide in Florida and, after reams of publicity and hand-wringing over the use of psychotropic medications in such children, a state task force recommended, among other things, that children never be allowed to participate in a clinical trial designed to evaluate new psychotropic meds or whether such drugs approved for adults should be given to children.

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