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  • May 2008

    • Antipsychotic Drugs Triple Health Risks in Elderly

      Reuters  |  May 27, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      Antipsychotic Drugs Triple Health Risks in Elderly

      (Newser) - Elderly dementia patients given antipsychotic drugs, even briefly, are three times as likely to end up hospitalized or dead within a month, new research has found. The study looked at 40,000 elderly Canadians, half of them in nursing homes, and found that the drugs increased the risk of heart problems, pneumonia, and falls, Reuters reports. More »

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      elderly  • Alzheimer's  • dementia  • nursing homes  • antipsychotic drugs  • Zyprexa

    • US Drugging Foreigners for Deportation

      Washington Post  |  May 14, 08 1:40 PM CDT

      US Drugging Foreigners for Deportation

      (Newser) - The US government injects hundreds of illegal immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs to keep them sedated while being deported, the Washington Post reports. The so-called "pre-flight cocktail" often leaves detainees so incapacitated they need a wheelchair to get onto the plane. Used far more often than the "last resort" it's advertised as, the practice violates some international human-rights codes. More »

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      immigrant  • illegal immigration  • deportation  • antipsychotic drugs

  • February 2008

    • Lynne Spears: Manager Drugged, Abused Britney

      People  |  Feb 5, 08 4:55 PM CST

      Lynne Spears: Manager Drugged, Abused Britney

      (Newser) - Britney Spears' manager has been drugging and verbally attacking the singer, her mom said in papers filed to support her application for a restraining order against Sam Lutfi. Lynne Spears says in a document dated Jan. 31 that Lutfi "claims to control everything"—he cut her daughter's phone lines, removed her cell phone chargers and disabled her cars. She quotes him as saying, “If you try to get rid of me, she'll be dead and I'll piss on her grave.” More »

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      Britney Spears  • hospitalization  • Lynne Spears  • antipsychotic drugs  • Sam Lutfi  • verbal abuse

  • December 2007

    • Nursing Homes Fight Drug Addiction

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 20, 07 1:30 PM CST

      Nursing Homes Fight Drug Addiction

      (Newser) - Despite known dangers—including an increased risk of death—the use of anti-psychotic drugs to control elderly dementia patients has surged, to an estimated 30% of all nursing home residents. Under pressure to cut back, some homes are experimenting with alternatives, like letting distraught patients do what they want to calm down instead of drugging them—even letting some patients help out with others, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      elderly  • dementia  • nursing homes  • antipsychotic drugs

    • Nursing Homes Misuse Meds to Control Patients

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 4, 07 3:05 PM CST

      Nursing Homes Misuse Meds to Control Patients

      (Newser) - Understaffed US nursing homes are increasingly turning to antipsychotic drugs to control elderly residents, even though most display symptoms of dementia rather than the psychotic disorders the drugs are intended to treat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Such “off-label” usage defies FDA warnings that elderly patients using the drugs face an increased risk of death. More »

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      elderly  • Alzheimer's  • dementia  • senior citizens  • nursing homes  • eldercare  • antipsychotic drugs  • rehabilitation center  • psychosis  • elder abuse

  • September 2007

    • Schizophrenia Drug Offers New Hope

      BBC  |  Sep 3, 07 3:58 AM CDT

      Schizophrenia Drug Offers New Hope

      (Newser) - The first human trial of a new medication to treat schizophrenia that works fundamentally differently from its predecessors has shown promising results, according to this month's Nature Medicine . The drug targets glutamate rather than dopamine, as do other drugs. Scientists have long known glutamate is involved in schizophrenia. More »

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      medicine  • schizophrenia  • antipsychotic drugs  • Eli Lilly  • dopamine

  • May 2007

    • Psych Drugs Drove Kid Crazy

      Salon  |  May 18, 07 9:44 PM CDT

      Psych Drugs Drove Kid Crazy

      (Newser) - The careless prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, often by psychiatrists who draw pay checks from the companies who make them, has drawn attention in the New York Times recently. Now Ann Bauer, writing in Salon , draws an intimate portrait of the effects of such carelessness on one autistic teenager, who turned from shy chess nerd to psychotic bruiser. More »

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      health  • drugs  • medicine  • doctor  • pharmaceutical companies  • drug companies  • psychiatry  • schizophrenia  • pharma  • antipsychotic drugs

    • Use of Antipsychotics For Kids Soars

      New York Times  |  May 10, 07 10:23 AM CDT

      (Newser) - The Times tackles the growing use of antipsychotic drugs in children, contentious because the drugs are risky and have no approved use for minors. But the trend is also questionable because it coincides with increasing payments to psychiatrists by the companies that market the drugs. In Minnesota, these payments rose sixfold from 2000 to 2005. More »

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      children  • medicine  • safety  • drug companies  • psychiatry  • antipsychotic drugs

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