RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Commentary: Legislators—How Did the Deciders Decide? Who Shall Serve as Their Experts?
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 323
OP 324
VO 35
IS 3
A1 Donald J. Meyer
YR 2007
UL http://jaapl.org/content/35/3/323.abstract
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.