Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
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Listen Now In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2007, the FDA's Dr. David Graham stated, "15,000 elderly people in nursing homes [are] dying each year from the off-label use of antipsychotic medications for an indication that the FDA knows the drug doesn't work. The problem has been known to the FDA for years and years.” Eleven years later, Human Rights Watch published a report titled, “They Want Docile: How Nursing Homes in the US Over-Medicate People with Dementia." The report found in 2016-2017 "massive use" or abuse of anti-psychotics, e.g., Seroquel, Haldol and Risperdal, that have serious side effects including sudden cardiac death. In testimony before the Ways and Means Committee last November Nov., Richard Mollot, Executive Director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, concluded, “the use of antipsychotics in nursing facilities is “so extensive that it puts the US in violation of . . . international conventions and covenants on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.” Dedicated listeners may recall I interviewed Diana Zuckerman on this topic in December 2012 and in February 2018 interviewed Hannah Flamm author of the Human Rights Watch Report.
Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways …
Dr. Rachel Dolin Discusses the House Ways & Means Committee's Recent Report,"Under-Enforced and Over-Prescribed: The Antipsychotic Drug Epidemic Ravaging America’s Nursing Homes” (August 27th)
Listen Now In testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in 2007, the FDA's Dr. David Graham stated, "15,000 elderly people in nursing homes [are] dying each year from the off-label use of antipsychotic medications for an indication that the FDA knows the drug doesn't work. The problem has been known to the FDA for years and years.” Eleven years later, Human Rights Watch published a report titled, “They Want Docile: How Nursing Homes in the US Over-Medicate People with Dementia." The report found in 2016-2017 "massive use" or abuse of anti-psychotics, e.g., Seroquel, Haldol and Risperdal, that have serious side effects including sudden cardiac death. In testimony before the Ways and Means Committee last November Nov., Richard Mollot, Executive Director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition, concluded, “the use of antipsychotics in nursing facilities is “so extensive that it puts the US in violation of . . . international conventions and covenants on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment.” Dedicated listeners may recall I interviewed Diana Zuckerman on this topic in December 2012 and in February 2018 interviewed Hannah Flamm author of the Human Rights Watch Report.