Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for nursing homes to use antipsychotic drugs. A 2021 New York Times investigation that revealed at least 21% of nursing home residents, more than 225,000 people in ...

plus the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac)--are approved by the Food and Drug Administration for this use, but other antipsychotics are used "off-label" for this purpose. However, the available ...

Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, imprisoned for spreading "fake news" about the war in Ukraine, was handed an additional sentence on Thursday on charges of attacking prison staff, her employer ...

A Manchester University that conducted a study on schizophrenic patients has come up with a finding that the patients respond just as well to the older anti-psychotic drugs. A Manchester ...

Health NZ has launched an investigation after an 11-year-old girl was taken by police to a mental health facility and ...

Amitriptyline and maprotiline were the drugs most commonly implicated in these cases. Typical antipsychotics are recognized as having a greater risk of Q-Tc interval prolongation than are atypical ...

An 11-year-old girl was taken by police to a mental health facility and injected with two doses of antipsychotic drugs in a ...