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10/13/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Nursing Homes abusively drugging elderly patients with mind-altering drug

We’ve heard a lot in recent years about nursing homes overmedicating their patients with psych drugs to sedate them in order to make them easier to manage, a heartless practice that puts their lives in jeopardy. This still occurs to a disturbing degree, but tighter regulations by the government on dangerous antipsychotic drugs have forced […]

10/09/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Thanks to addictive opioids, senior citizens are the new drug dealers

Most people have a certain image that comes to mind when they imagine drug dealers. More often than not, it’s an unkempt younger man lurking in the shadows of a side street looking the worse for wear. Few people would expect to find an 85-year-old woman being charged with drug dealing, but this is exactly […]

07/20/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

It’s not just in America: Norwegian nursing homes are also over-medicating their senior citizens

It’s hard not to feel the overwhelming urge to take the best care of yourself possible when you hear what happens to elderly people in nursing homes. While horror stories involving specific incidents of mistreatment hit the headlines every now and then and can be extremely disturbing, a much more insidious problem is doing even […]

05/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

Sleeping pills found to double the risk of breaking your hip

Taking commonly-used sleeping pills may raise the odds of hip fracture in elderly patients, a study revealed. As part of the study, a team of researchers from the King’s College London and the Cardiff University in the U.K. examined data on elderly patients who were recently prescribed hypnotic drugs such as benzodiazepines and z-drugs and compared them with […]

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