{"id":9489,"date":"2018-02-06T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:14:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:14:30","slug":"risky-antipsychotic-drugs-still-overprescribed-in-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=9489","title":{"rendered":"Risky Antipsychotic Drugs Still Overprescribed In Nursing Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ina Jaffe for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2018\/02\/05\/they-want-docile\/how-nursing-homes-united-states-overmedicate-people-dementia\">study<\/a>\u00a0published Monday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2018\/02\/05\/they-want-docile\/how-nursing-homes-united-states-overmedicate-people-dementia\">Human Rights Watch<\/a>\u00a0finds that about 179,000 nursing home residents are being given antipsychotic drugs, even though they don&#8217;t have schizophrenia or other serious mental illnesses that those drugs are designed to treat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/02\/05\/583435517\/risky-antipsychotic-drugs-still-overprescribed-in-nursing-homes?utm_campaign=KHN:%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=60471943&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_MsfQPHQpZoYsQyGHKqcskoAiS-EVgphPGOb3YUJMcuLXBrnM4DAg4BJeq6Uc-RAUXbyM0FAj51oarlEP4a1LD3DVLnQ&amp;_hsmi=60471943\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Ina Jaffe for NPR) A\u00a0study\u00a0published Monday by\u00a0Human Rights Watch\u00a0finds that about 179,000 nursing home residents are being given antipsychotic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,24,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alzheimersdementia","category-nursing-homes","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9490,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}