Doctors Use Antipsychotics To Calm "Challenging Behavior"

Doctors are resorting to powerful psychotropic drugs, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, to calm patients with intellectual disabilities – even if they don’t have a history of mental illness. The new study puts figures on a practice that has long been suspected.

“Sedating people may dampen the challenging behaviour, but won’t identify the source of the frustration,” says Rory Sheehan of University College London.

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