A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that even a single dose of antipsychotic medication doubles the risk of a serious adverse event leading to hospitalization and/or death. These drugs are widely used as behavior management in nursing homes, have no FDA approval for this use, and are clearly very unsafe.
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Yes, these drugs are super expensive and are bankrupting states and driving up the cost of needed healthcare for everyone. Yes, they are given to children, the elderly, and depressed patients for behavior modification and symptom suppression. These uses were never approved by the FDA. Yes, they cause obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. And yes, we now find out they actually cause the brain to shrink – the lobotomy of the 21st Century.
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