Tag: psychiatric drugs and the elderly

Government Issues Warning About Pill Pushed on the Elderly

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From CNN: The US government is warning insurance companies to be on the lookout for suspicious prescriptions of a drug being used in nursing...

How Big Pharma and the Medical Doctors Killed my Father

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When the nurses tried to give him other medications, my father refused. They accused him of being ā€œcombativeā€ and ā€œuncooperative,ā€ and they injected him with the highly toxic, incredibly dangerous, mind-bending antipsychotic HALDOL.

ā€œIt Might Not Be Dementia—How Pharma for Seniors Can Go Seriously...

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For Alternet, Martha Rosenberg discusses the dangers of overmedicating seniors and older adults. She interviews Dr. Harry Haroutunian about his new book, ā€œNot As...