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Drugs are widely used to sedate dementia patients. Her sons wanted to keep her off them
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| Publisher | Headline | Summary | Published | Detected | Delay | Source | Status |
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| NPR News | Drugs are widely used to sedate dementia patients. Her sons wanted to keep her off them |
Potent sedating medications are often used on agitated people with dementia in long-term care facilities despite federal efforts to discourage them. A clash over whether to drug a Michigan woman illum |
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