Learning difficulties 'over-medicated'

Learning difficulties 'over-medicated' People with learning difficulties in the UK are being inappropriately over-medicated, patient records suggest.

A study in the BMJ looked at GP data spanning over a decade and found that more than a quarter of 33,000 adults with learning difficulties had been prescribed antipsychotics, often with no obvious clinical justification. BBC News

See also:

• Mental illness, challenging behaviour, and psychotropic drug prescribing in people with intellectual disability: UK population based cohort study The BMJ