Wednesday 27 October 2010

Anti-psychotic drugs reduction pledge

A new coallition of forty organisations, The Dementia Action Alliance, has announced that one of its goals is to reduce the use of anti-psychotic drugs for dementia patients. A government review estimated these drugs are wrongly prescribed to approximately 145,000 sufferers, and have resulted in 1,800 needless deaths.

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