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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTHTITLE: Opinion: The FDA removed the red tape around one of the best drugs for children with schizophrenia. But the fear remains
On Feb. 24, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration did something it arguably should have done long ago: It removed the elaborate monitoring program that has governed one of psychiatry’s most important drugs, clozapine, for more than 30 years. For anyone who treats serious mental illness, this is welcome news.
But I want to say something more complicated about it, because I have spent a large part of my career prescribing this drug (or trying to) to the most vulnerable population there is: children with psychosis. The paperwork was never really the problem.
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