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Antipsychotic Drugs Called Hazardous for the Elderly
The New York Times By Gardiner Harris May 9, 2011 Nearly one in seven elderly nursing home residents, nearly all of them with dementia, are given powerful atypical antipsychotic drugs even though the...
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Antipsychotic Drugs Deadly for Elderly Patients, Prescribed Anyway
ThirdAge.com by Alex Heig Antipsychotic drugs prescribed to as many as one in seven patients with dementia at nursing homes increase the risk of death and are not approved for such uses, a government...
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Cause for alarm: Antipsychotic drugs for nursing home patients
CNN By Daniel R. Levinson, Special to CNN May 31, 2011 Daniel Levinson, inspector general for the OIG in the Department of Health and Human Services. When a loved one moves into a nursing home, the...
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Harvard Expert Ties Mental Illness “Epidemic” to Big Pharma’s Agenda
Minyanville By Minyanville Staff July 28, 2011 When the DSM-II was published in 1980, it became “the bible of psychiatry,” writes Angell, who adds, “but like the real Bible, it depended a lot on...
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Doctors rarely face consequences for drug kickbacks
The News Tribune – September 20, 2011 by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein; ProPublica Despite their power to secure large settlements from drugmakers, the suits have failed to resolve the culpability...
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