Congressional Committee Releases Report on Overdrugging Problem Ravaging Nursing Homes
The House Ways & Means Committee has released a report examining the continued misuse of antipsychotic drugs in America’s nursing homes. While the report is a much needed analysis of the awful state of chemical restraint use in nursing homes, the report is also very frustrating as it comes forty-five years after a seminal Congressional hearing talking about the same exact problems.The new report highlights that, despite a highly-touted eight year old CMS campaign to reduce antipsychotics in nursing homes, the rate of residents given antipsychotics remains stubbornly high at 20%.