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Re:Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes by robbiep on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:16PM (#28498328)
It’s actually tardive dyskinesia (I assume you may have thought that the tardative stems from retarded as in intellectual disability). As far as I am aware, this movement disorder does not have any causal relationship with intellectual disability.

I agree with the principle behind your other points though, in an ideal world we would not prescribe these medications to the elderly to ‘aid in management’

Re:Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes by grapist420 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:23PM (#28498365)
whoops. Looks like tardive actually refers to it developing late in the course of treatment, https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tardive and dyskinesia refers to the actual disorder of movement