by CCHR CO | Dec 19, 2016 | General News
A new report from researchers analyzing psychiatric drug use in the U.S. in 2013 has added to already existing concerns that older Americans are being overdrugged. It also suggests that many Americans may be taking psychiatric drugs because they have become drug...
by CCHR CO | Dec 5, 2011 | General News
Federal lawmakers received two major reports last week on the troubling lack of oversight at the federal level of the prescribing of psychiatric drugs to two of our nation’s most vulnerable populations: foster children and the elderly in care facilities. A Government...
by CCHR CO | Aug 15, 2011 | News for Colorado
Colorado Ombudsman Warns Medicare/Medicaid Cuts Threaten Quality of Care Cuts in federal and state payments for Medicare and Medicaid patients provide yet another reason for monitoring the drugs given to a loved one in a nursing home or convalescent facility. Medicare...
by CCHR CO | May 11, 2011 | General News
Risk Of Potentially Deadly Side Effects For Dementia Patients An investigation by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that nursing homes are giving many elderly residents powerful antipsychotic drugs that put their...
