Stop BigPharma from exploiting the elderly, Medicare and Medicaid through the distribution of off-label antipsychotics paid for by taxpayer dollars. Make promoting off-label drugs a crime punishable by imprisonment.
Why is this important?
Every day tens of thousands of Americans in nursing homes are prescribed antipsychotics to “treat” Alzheimer’s and other dementias, although in most cases the antipsychotics lack FDA approval for treating dementia, have no therapeutic value for that purpose, and pose great risks for the patient, including untreated pain, confusion, and early death. Many of these drugs are ultimately paid for by taxpayer dollars through Medicare and Medicaid, feeding the obscene profits of pharmaceutical companies like Abbott Laboratories and Eli Lilly, both of whom were convicted of promoting antipsychotics for dementia.
