Second FDA Panel wants tough warnings on drugs

Update March 22 '06 from this post :

CTV - FDA Paediatric Advisory Panel recommends tough warnings but not strongest warnings on ADHD drugs.

From the Richmond Times Dispatch -

Licensed clinical psychologist David Stein, who has a practice in Richmond, promotes drug-free solutions to managing attention-deficit and hyperactivity problems. Stein, a Longwood University professor, is signed up to testify during the public comment period at the FDA meeting today.

"One of the things I am saying to the FDA is what a terrible thing it is to tell a child or parent that the child has a psychiatric disease and will have it for the rest of his or her life when there is not a shred of evidence of its existence."

Stein said he is not totally opposed to using psychotropic drugs but thinks they are vastly overused.