antipsychotics

The investigations into select nursing homes are aimed at verifying whether patients have been properly diagnosed with the psychiatric disorder.

Way too many residents of U.S. nursing homes are on antipsychotic drugs, critics say. It's often just for the convenience of the staff, to sedate patients agitated by dementia. That's illegal.

After the Palm Beach Post reported last spring that juveniles in youth prisons were getting large doses of antipsychotics, and doctors were getting large…