https://blog.richardmillwood.net/2013/10/25/the-bitterest-pills-the-troubling-story-of-antipsychotic-drugs/ A new learning landscape Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.richardmillwood.net/2013/10/25/the-bitterest-pills-the-troubling-story-of-antipsychotic-drugs/comment-page-1/#comment-50045 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:19:38 +0000 http://blog.richardmillwood.net/?p=439#comment-50045 Sadly, antipsychotic drugs have been used (perhaps currently used) to treat the elderly in hospitals, a very bitter experience for my family. The medicalisation of behaviour that is inconvenient is dangerous when it leaves patients unable to communicate clearly, for example about pain. When did restlessness at night on a ward become a medical issue? Medication also creates confusion in lucid moments between doses; it dulls the brain but not the mind.

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