PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Donald J. Meyer
TI  - Commentary: Legislators—How Did the Deciders Decide? Who Shall Serve as Their Experts?
DP  - 2007 Sep 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 323--324
VI  - 35
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/35/3/323.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/35/3/323.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2007 Sep 01; 35
AB  - Weisleder presents a retrospective empirical inquiry into the decision tree of state legislators who chose the age at which minors could consent to substance abuse treatment in their respective jurisdictions. Current medical practices and the developmental research into the cognitive capacities of adolescents did not figure prominently. Readers, including current and future political advocates, are provided with an informed window into the political processes of the making of a law that affects the practice of medicine. Weisleder is reminded that politics and science are uncomfortable bedfellows.