Behavioral care = make them behave
I think most people who read this blog are highly suspicious of big pharma, particularly if you've gone through the mill of doctors and prescriptions and pharmacies for years. Now comes this exhaustive look at big pharma and, in particular, off-label prescribing, by Evelyn Pringle for OpEdNews.com. One thing she talks about is geriatric prescribing in nursing homes, where residents are given higher doses of drugs than is indictaed for their illnesses. Like rowdy children being medicatied in kindergarten, the elderly are seen as difficult. So dope ’em up! It's awful.
For more of Pringle's reporting on the pharmaceutical industry, go here.
