Antipsychotic drug use up among elderly

Published July 22, 2012

Antipsychotic drug use up among elderly

Filed under: Baltimore Drug Abuse

In the Pittsburgh area, the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home on the North Side had the lowest rate at 4.4 percent. South Fayette's antipsychotic drug use rate of 50 percent compares to medians of 15.6 percent for the state and 16.7 percent …
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Technician charged with infecting N.H. patients with hepatitis C worked in Md.

Filed under: Baltimore Drug Abuse

Kwiatkowski is accused of stealing syringes containing narcotics intended for patients, injecting himself and then putting another substance such as saline into the syringe, the FBI said. … He worked in four hospitals: the Baltimore Veterans Affairs …
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