As 71 year old 'senior citizen' with 50 years of being 'involved' with marijuana, I would highly (not a pun) recommend that all SENIOR CITIZENS flush their anti-psychotic prescriptions down the toilet!
These anti-psychotic drugs only fuck up your mind even more!
Be calm, cool and collected--SMOKE POT!
Oldcatman
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****Many dementia patients wrongly given antipsychotic meds!
(1 in 7 nursing home residents get the drugs, even though they raise risk of death.)
The New York Times: The government auditors found that of the 2.1 million elderly patients in nursing homes during the first six months of 2007, 304,983 had at least one Medicare claim for an antipsychotic medicine. Nursing home residents received 20 percent of the 8.5 million claims for antipsychotic medicines for all Medicare beneficiaries at a cost of $309 million during those six months.
The auditors found that 83 percent of antipsychotic prescriptions for elderly nursing home residents were for uses not approved by federal drug regulators, and 88 percent were to treat patients with dementia — for whom the drugs can be lethal.
“These results are alarming,” said Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who asked for the audit. “Medicare officials need to pay attention.”
Federal rules require that any drugs that are paid for by the government be given only for uses that are approved either by the government or one of three independent drug usage encyclopedias. Auditors found that 51 percent, or 726,000 of 1.4 million claims, for antipsychotic medicines did not meet this criterion and were thus paid for by the government improperly.
Government rules also ban drugs that are used in excessive doses or duration, even if patients are found to have a condition for which the drug is appropriate. Auditors found that 22 percent, or 317,971 of 1.4 million claims, for antipsychotic medicines failed this standard.
The New York Times
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