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Search results for "antipsychotic" ...
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A rampant prescription, a hidden peril
The series investigated nursing homes’ use of antipsychotic medications on the elderly, a practice the US Food and Drug and Administration has long warned against because of potentially fatal side effects in people with dementia. The Boston Globe analyzed data from 15,600 nursing homes nationwide and found that about 185,000 residents received antipsychotics in 2010 alone, despite not having a medical condition that warranted such use. The series also revealed that Massachusetts nursing homes commonly use antipsychotics to control agitation and combative behavior in elderly residents who should not be receiving the powerful sedatives, yet state regulators seldom use their authority to reprimand or penalize facilities for this practice.
Tags: Antipsychotics; FDA; nursing homes; Alzheimer's disease
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Down the Hatch
The story investigates whether a powerful drug manufacturing company lied to push an antipsychotic on foster children.
Tags: Johnson & Johnson; foster children; schizophrenia; Risperdal
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Drugging Delinquents
The investigation found that Florida was restraining jailed children with heavy doses of potent anti-psychotic drugs, medications that can turn troublemakers into "zombies" and cause serious health problems in kids.
Tags: juvenile; prisons; jailed children; Department of Juvenile Justice
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"Making a Killing"
A 26-year-old bipolar student enrolled in a drug trial at the University of Minnesota. However, Carl Elliott reveals that the professors who were ran the study knew that the student was probably "not competent to give his consent" because he suffered from "severe psychotic delusions." He was given a powerful antipsychotic and eventually stabbed himself to death. Elliott is "a professor of medical ethics at the University of Minnesota," and believes that the professors who were running the drug study would profit from it and that the student who committed suicide was "coerced" into participating.
Tags: bipolar; drug trial; antipsychotic; Seroquel; University of Minnesota; AstraZeneca
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"Physicians on Pharma's Payroll: Educators or Marketers?"
This story focuses on doctors as industry speakers and their relationship with pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical companies claim to choose speakers based on expertise, but further investigation shows that many of the hired physicians have "serious transgressions on their state records." They also tend to be "high prescribers" of the company's products.
Tags: pharmacy; prescriptions; Geodon; Pfizer; antipsychotic drugs; pharmaceutical companies; Department of Health; New York; Food and Drug Administration
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Behind the Label
This documentary exposes an unregulated system that financially rewards the overmedication of children with antipsychotic drugs. "Some states, doctors, agencies and even certain foster parents profit at the expense of children's health - driven by complicated state funding formulas and the influence of the pharmaceutical industry."
Tags: children; pharmaceuticals; antipsychotic drugs; prescriptions; adolescents; Medicaid;
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Medicating the Military
The stories looked at the nature and scope of the use of prescription drugs in the military community, with a focus on psychiatric medications and painkillers. The reporting found that use of psychiatric medications has risen dramatically in the past several years and some doctors suggest it may be a factor in the military's suicide epidemic of recent years. Reporters found that many psychiatric drugs - including powerful anti-convulsants and anti-psychotic medications - were being used "off label", or in ways not formally approved by the FDA. Reporters found that many troops were taking up to 10 medications at a time in so-called drug cocktails that experts say are untested and unproven in these combinations. Reporters also found that deaths caused by accidental drug overdoses had tripled during the past several years and that the Army's specialty care units were quietly conducting internal investigations and making significant changes to hospital protocols to reduce risk of accidental deaths. Finally, they found that psychiatric drug usage was also up significantly among military children.
Tags: Military; Army; Veteran; Health; Wellness; Medicine; Drugs; Pain killers; Psychiatric Medication; Mental Health; Suicide; Depression; Military Children; Hospital; Prescription
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Western State
"The series looked at violence and the use of restraints and isolation at Western State Hospital, the state's chief psychiatric hospital. It also examined the use of a new generation of anti-psychotic drug at the hospital and their effects on patients."
Tags: hospitals; health care; psychiatric; anti-psychotic drugs; patients; violence
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Us Pads its arrest record on terrorism
For years, the Justice Dept. has overstated its number of arrested and convicted terrorists, inflating the numbers with largely harmless crimes that have no connection to terrorism. Some examples of cases that were classified as terrorism: A tenant fighting eviction called his landlord, impersonated an FBI agent, and said the bureau did not want the tenant evicted, seven Chinese sailors were convicted of taking over a Taiwanese fishing boat and sailing into the US territory of Guam, where they hoped to win political asylum, and a man under treatment in California told his doctor he needed anti-psychotic medication because he was hearing voices telling him to kill president Bush.
Tags: justice; crime; corruption; FBI
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Why Did She Do It?
60 Minutes investigates the patient history of Andrea Yates. Andrea Yates's doctor, the one who diagnosed her as "psychotic," took her off antipsychotic medicine shortly before she killed her children. 60 Minutes found that Dr. Mohammed Saeed had been sued twice for malpractice, and that the psychiatric hospital he worked for also had a number of problems.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; murder; postpartum depression; Andrea Yates; hospital