As many as 71% of adults with a learning disability were prescribed an antipsychotic when they had no record of any mental illness, a study reported in The BMJ has found. The report, published on 1 September 2015, laid out evidence confirming continuing and frequent inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics to adults with learning disabilities. The finding comes soon after a re- port by Public Health England said one in six aqults with learning disabilities, but no diagnosis of mental illness, was prescribed antipsychotic drugs by a GP.
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