Real Adult?

Why is it that on the back of a prescription bottle it says "adult" is 12 and above, but the full-grown age in genuineness is 18? Alot of this depends on the state in which you live contained by. It has be the general model of most law maker that the age of consent and mental compitence is as low as 12. In Missouri the legal age of accountability is at 17. But you are competent to make literary judgements at the age of 12-14 due to mental maturity.
Usually medication dosing is dependent upon immensity. Maybe some 12-year-olds weigh as much as adults. Or vice versa?
"Child" is a term used for someone beneath a specific body mass, age and assumed tolerance for a quantity of a drug. "Adult" is someone who excedes the minimum diploma as an adult such as body size, tolerance for the drug as ably as being the responsible personality to give the drug to a minor.