{"id":438,"date":"2011-05-10T17:40:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T23:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=438"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:30","slug":"antipsychotic-drugs-are-hazardous-for-the-elderly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/10\/antipsychotic-drugs-are-hazardous-for-the-elderly\/","title":{"rendered":"Antipsychotic drugs are hazardous for the elderly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>&#8220;Nearly one in seven elderly nursing home  residents, nearly all of them with dementia, are given powerful atypical  antipsychotic drugs even though the medicines increase the risks of death and  are not approved for such treatments, a government audit found.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>[<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/article_f0fc1438-7aaf-11e0-8be7-0019bb30f31a.html\">http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/national\/article_f0fc1438-7aaf-11e0-8be7-0019bb30f31a.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><span>]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, Department  of Health and Human Services (HHS), <a href=\"http:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/testimony\/levinson_051011.asp\">said<\/a>, &#8220;Too many of  these institutions fail to comply with federal regulations designed to prevent  overmedication, giving nursing home patients antipsychotic drugs in ways that  violate federal standards for unnecessary drug use.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The summary from\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oig.hhs.gov\/oei\/reports\/oei-07-08-00150.asp\">HHS\u00c2\u00a0report  OEI-07-08-00150<\/a> published May 4, 2011,\u00c2\u00a0said, &#8220;For the period January 1  through June 30, 2007, we determined using medical record review that 51 percent  of Medicare claims for atypical antipsychotic drugs were erroneous, amounting to  $116 million.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For more information about psychiatry harming the  elderly, download and read the CCHR booklet, <em>Elderly Abuse \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Cruel Mental  Health Programs \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Report and recommendations on psychiatry abusing seniors,<\/em> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/elderly.shtml\">http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/elderly.shtml<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nearly one in seven elderly nursing home residents, nearly all of them with dementia, are given powerful atypical antipsychotic drugs even though the medicines increase the risks of death and are not approved for such treatments, a government audit found.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/10\/antipsychotic-drugs-are-hazardous-for-the-elderly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-74","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}