MARGATE - State officials are investigating whether a 7-year-old boy
who hanged himself in his Margate foster home had been given a
powerful, mind-altering drug in violation of Florida law.

Three weeks before his April 16 suicide, Gabriel Myers was prescribed
the drug Symbyax, which is a combination of the generic forms of the
anti-depressant Prozac and the anti-psychosis drug Zyprexa, according
to state Department of Children & Families records released Friday
night.

But there was no court order in place for Gabriel to use the drug, the
records show. Under Florida law, parental consent or a judge’s ruling
is needed before a foster child can be administered a psychotropic
drug.

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