LOS ANGELES: Doctors are massively over-medicating people with learning disabilities, often prescribing antipsychotics that are entirely inappropriate for the individual according to a new health study.
New research follows revelations from a government report on private hospitals where people with learning disabilities were shown to have been abused. That report concluded there were “deep concerns” about over-prescribing antipsychotic and antidepressant medicines for patients with learning disabilities and autism…