Nursing Homes Often Medicate Residents Without Psychosisby (author unknown), Seniors / Aging News From Medical News Today on Dec 05, 2007"In recent years, Medicaid has spent more money on antipsychotic drugs for Americans than on any other class of pharmaceuticals," largely because nursing homes are "giving these drugs to elderly patients to quiet symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia" -- conditions for which the drugs are not approved by FDA, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to [click link for full article]
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