A New York Times investigative report has discovered that over 20% of nursing home residents are currently prescribed antipsychotic medications, with 1 in 9 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. The report shows that most of these patients have been improperly diagnosed so that dangerous antipsychotics can be used off-label as sedatives.  Many of the diagnoses appear to be efforts to give residents sedative drugs such as Haldol, so … Continue reading How Nursing Homes Used Fake Diagnoses to Hide Dangerous Prescriptions