Researchers in the Netherlands followed 248 nursing home residents with dementia for two years, finding that even 25% of the defined daily dose of SSRIs increase the risk of injurious falls by 31%. At the full defined daily dose, the risk rose by 298%. The addition of hypnotics or sedatives increased the risk even more. Results appear in the May issue of British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.
Recent studies show psychiatric drugs including expecially SSRI antidepressants pose serious risks of harm and no therapeutic benefit for the elderly and many others.
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