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Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Over-Medicating to Manage Behaviour is Damaging and Wasteful

on October 23rd, 2017 by The Afro News

It’s time to talk about the overuse of antipsychotics among adults with developmental disabilities Inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotic medications – drugs like Risperdal, Zyprexa and Abilify – to seniors, especially those in long-term care with conditions like dementia, has been a hot topic across Canada in recent years. We’ve also increasingly heard about the high

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