Read more antipsychotic drugs stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1865/antipsychotic-drugs.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:42:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMental health experts have lost touch with the benefits of old-fashioned insane asylums, where patients once enjoyed a sense of community and jobs like cleaning and farming, Oliver Sacks writes in the New York Review of Books . Touching on a new book of Christopher Payne photographs called Asylum —which offers...http://www.newser.com/story/69312/insane-asylums-werent-so-bad-oliver-sacks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 17:35:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/28488/antipsychotic-drugs-triple-health-risks-in-elderly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagElderly dementia patients given antipsychotic drugs, even briefly, are three times as likely to end up hospitalized or dead within a month, new research has found. The study looked at 40,000 elderly Canadians, half of them in nursing homes, and found that the drugs increased the risk of heart...http://www.newser.com/story/28488/antipsychotic-drugs-triple-health-risks-in-elderly.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 May 2008 8:53:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/27462/us-drugging-foreigners-for-deportation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US government injects hundreds of illegal immigrants with dangerous psychotropic drugs to keep them sedated while being deported, the Washington Post reports. The so-called "pre-flight cocktail" often leaves detainees so incapacitated they need a wheelchair to get onto the plane. Used far more often than the "last resort" it's...http://www.newser.com/story/27462/us-drugging-foreigners-for-deportation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 May 2008 13:40:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/18271/lynne-spears-manager-drugged-abused-britney.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritney Spears' manager has been drugging and verbally attacking the singer, her mom said in papers filed to support her application for a restraining order against Sam Lutfi. Lynne Spears says in a document dated Jan. 31 that Lutfi "claims to control everything"—he cut her daughter's phone lines, removed...http://www.newser.com/story/18271/lynne-spears-manager-drugged-abused-britney.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 05 Feb 2008 16:55:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/14554/nursing-homes-fight-drug-addiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDespite known dangers—including an increased risk of death—the use of anti-psychotic drugs to control elderly dementia patients has surged, to an estimated 30% of all nursing home residents. Under pressure to cut back, some homes are experimenting with alternatives, like letting distraught patients do what they want to...http://www.newser.com/story/14554/nursing-homes-fight-drug-addiction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 20 Dec 2007 13:30:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/13275/nursing-homes-misuse-meds-to-control-patients.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagUnderstaffed US nursing homes are increasingly turning to antipsychotic drugs to control elderly residents, even though most display symptoms of dementia rather than the psychotic disorders the drugs are intended to treat, the Wall Street Journal reports. Such “off-label” usage defies FDA warnings that elderly patients using the drugs face...http://www.newser.com/story/13275/nursing-homes-misuse-meds-to-control-patients.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 04 Dec 2007 15:05:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/6834/schizophrenia-drug-offers-new-hope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe first human trial of a new medication to treat schizophrenia that works fundamentally differently from its predecessors has shown promising results, according to this month's Nature Medicine . The drug targets glutamate rather than dopamine, as do other drugs. Scientists have long known glutamate is involved in schizophrenia.http://www.newser.com/story/6834/schizophrenia-drug-offers-new-hope.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Sep 2007 3:58:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2305/psych-drugs-drove-kid-crazy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe careless prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, often by psychiatrists who draw pay checks from the companies who make them, has drawn attention in the New York Times recently. Now Ann Bauer, writing in Salon , draws an intimate portrait of the effects of such carelessness on one autistic teenager, who turned...http://www.newser.com/story/2305/psych-drugs-drove-kid-crazy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 May 2007 21:44:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/2085/use-of-antipsychotics-for-kids-soars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Times tackles the growing use of antipsychotic drugs in children, contentious because the drugs are risky and have no approved use for minors. But the trend is also questionable because it coincides with increasing payments to psychiatrists by the companies that market the drugs. In Minnesota, these payments rose...http://www.newser.com/story/2085/use-of-antipsychotics-for-kids-soars.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 May 2007 10:23:52 CDT