The Boston Globe and USA Today both contained stories of overuse and misuse of anti-psychotic drugs today. The Boston Globe released a two-part story which analyzed federal data showing more than 185,000 nursing gnome residents received anti-psychotic medications in 2010 in violation of federal law and recommendations.
Links to these important stories are below.
The Boston Globe
A separate Boston Globe article
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