Innappropriate drug prescriptions wasting millions, raising health risks

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 13:42 in Health & Medicine

A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established.

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