By Lucy Skoulding Antipsychotic drugs given to dementia patients may cause “more severe harm than good”, a study has shown. The medications can reportedly raise the risk of a stroke, acute kidney injury, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and bone breaks, researchers have found. They said the range of severe side effects was “wider than previously highlighted in regulatory alerts”. University of Manchester professor Darren Ashcroft told The Sun: “In recent years, it has become clear that more people with dementia are being prescribed antipsychotic drugs, despite existing regul…
