Category Archives: Youth Today

Youth Today Agency Itself Has Final Say on Approval by John Kelly An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of three psychotropic medications for use by mentally disturbed youth, a path of … Continue reading →

Youth Today by John Kelly The Food and Drug Administration’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee will vote next week on whether to allow three psychotropic medications to be marketed as effective and acceptably safe for youths with certain conditions. Doctors have … Continue reading →

Youth Today by Jamaal Abdul-Alim, John Kelly Nearly one in six children in the Florida foster care system who had been prescribed psychotropic medication were given the drugs without parental consent or authorization from a judge, despite the state’s increased … Continue reading →