Dementia Patients Killed By Drugs They Never Needed (

Dementia patients killed by drugs they never needed

December 10, 2009

Illnesses and deaths caused by the wrong meds are bad enough… but in Britain, 1,800 dementia patients die each year because they were deliberately given drugs that were never intended for their condition.

And don’t think it’s not happening here, too.

A report in Britain found that as many as 180,000 dementia patients have been given antipsychotic drugs, leading to those 1,800 unnecessary deaths.

Unnecessary, because dementia patients shouldn’t be getting these meds to begin with. These meds do practically nothing for the condition or the patient, yet they’re given out at nursing homes like candy corn at Halloween.

The British report found that of the 180,000 dementia patients on those meds, only 36,000 – one out of every five – got any benefit. I’m betting that most of those people got only a modest benefit at best – and one they could have gotten from better human care rather than drugs.

In fact, in both Britain and the United States, antipsychotic meds are not approved for use in dementia or Alzheimer’s patients. And you can’t find any real, high- quality research that supports the use of these deadly drugs in these patients.

But millions of dementia patients around the world are given these meds because it makes them docile and easy to control. In some cases, it turns them into zombies. And I hate to say it, but there are some nursing homes out there that like their patients that way.

It’s much easier than caring for alert human beings who simply need help and attention.

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SOURCE:   Health Revelations.Com
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