Too much antipsychotic medication for nursing-home patients

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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2005 04:55 pm
Too much antipsychotic medication for nursing-home patients
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Across the country, thousands of nursing home patients may be taking powerful antipsychotic medications that they don't need. And, for those patients who do need these drugs, which the FDA has approved to treat debilitating mental diseases like schizophrenia, they might not even work.

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