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'Misidentified Man' Mistakenly Locked Up in Psychiatric Hospital, Injected with Powerful Antipsychotic Drug
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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Misidentified Man' Mistakenly Locked Up in Psychiatric Hospital, Injected with Powerful Antipsychotic Drug A psychiatric hospital in Western Australia is in the process of determining how a healthy man came to be held at the facility and injected
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Wrong man drugged after psychiatric hospital mistake
Sydney :: Australia | 5 months ago
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Police arrested the man on December 16 as he fitted the description of a patient who had gone missing from Graylands Hospital in Perth. Graylands staff wrongly confirmed the man's identity before administering a strong antipsychotic drug for
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Report: Mass. rarely nixes nursing home sedatives
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
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A newspaper reports that Massachusetts regulators rarely take action against nursing homes that use powerful anti-psychotic sedatives to control elderly residents. The Boston Globe reported on Sunday (http://b.globe.com/ZsPyUf ) that 27 homes were
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Newtown school shooter needed nutrition, not drugs like Fanapt from Novartis
Denver :: CO :: USA | 5 months ago
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Adam Lanza, the mass murderer in the Newtown School shooting, reportedly took the pharmaceutical drug Fanapt, made by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. According to the drug company's literature, published on the packing insert, Fanapt is
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Medicated America
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 months ago
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But the rage that led to a massacre might never have been triggered without access to lethal drugs. As the British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy has said: psychotropic drugs of pretty well any group can trigger violence up to and including homicide.
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BoingBoing picks up Markingson case
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 5 months ago
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It concerns how we treat people with who are suffering from paranoid delusions and how we treat people whose families worry that they are a threat to others. It concerns the relationships between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry. It concerns
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Union battling nursing homes places Globe ad highlighting HealthBridge's antipsychotic track record
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
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United Healthcare Workers East, a union that represents thousands of workers in five states, including Massachusetts, and is affiliated with a labor group battling Healthbridge in six Connecticut nursing homes. The ads detail the high rates of
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Arizona lawmakers to review drug settlement
Flagstaff :: AZ :: USA | 5 months ago
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The Associated Press The Associated Press 1 hour ago Arizona legislators on Tuesday will review Attorney General Tom Horne's plan for use of the state's $6 million share of a multistate settlement with the drug company Johnson & Johnson. The Joint
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The Deadly Combination of Mental Illness, Guns and Rx Drugs
Aleppo :: Syria | 5 months ago
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As we learn more about the young man who killed 20 grade school children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT, a few things are clear: (1) he had access to an arsenal of weapons that would be the envy of a Syrian rebel commander, (2) he was trained in how to
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Aim is fewer drugs given to dementia patients
Nashville :: TN :: USA | 5 months ago
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Tenn. (AP) Tennessee health officials are training nursing home care providers how to treat dementia patients with fewer drugs especially those with Alzheimer's disease. The Tennessean ( http://tnne.ws/T4yDR6 ) reported statistics collected by the
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