What a weekend! I’m still recovering. We had over 100 people at this past weekend’s Focus. The cool part is that almost half of those people were under 15 years old. It was truly a family weekend. During the Pizza Pool Party Saturday night I counted 40 people in the swimming pool at one time.

The week’s March 6th issue of U.S. News & World Report features a report on the use of psychiatric drugs in children. The article is available on this weeks news stands or by visiting http://www.usnews.com (save the pages for offline viewing as they will probably be removed next week.) Although the article is written from

The January 8th issue of the British Medical Journal reports that two thirds of children in a recent study, in European hospitals have received unlicensed drugs. The practice of prescribing drugs that have not been approved for use in children is widespread, European researchers report. There is a considerable concern in both Europe and the United States about the use of “unlicensed or off label drugs in children.”