Audit Finds Nursing Homes’ “Irregular” Use of Antipsychotics

Feds to investigate overuse of antipsychotic drugs by nursing homes

by Cara Murez
medicalxpress.com
January 18, 2023

U.S. health officials say they plan to investigate whether some nursing homes are falsely labeling patients as schizophrenic so they can administer sedating antipsychotic drugs to them.

”While less than 1% of people have schizophrenia, 99 U.S. nursing homes have claimed that at least 20% of their residents have the condition, the news report noted.”  Read entire article here.