Nurses’ unions nationwide have for years demonstrated, picketed, sent press releases and more to bring attention to chronic understaffing where they work. Although laws prohibiting such practices exist in certain areas due to union contracts, hospitals and other places of employment have often disregarded these directives. They have also often hired temporary workers in order to avoid all that a union brings to their bottom line. Now, a sinister practice has been identified by an analysis just published by the Pension Research Council at the University of Penn. Wharton School of Business. The study has exposed a serious abuse of sedative use across America’s tens of thousands of nursing homes, where more and more elderly patients are subjected to the use of drugs to literally sedate them, and thus result in the desired outcome: to achieve the goal of having patients so narcotized that they require less care, i.e. less nurses. As the analysis states, regarding this depraved practice, “patients placed under chemical restraints require less work. By reducing workloads rather than fulfilling them, nursing homes can hire fewer nurse staff while utilizing antipsychotic medications to still manage their patient load.”
Read the full story by Brett Arends for Market Watch, published July 12, 2025, here: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nursing-homes-may-start-sedating-your-elderly-parents-and-eventually-you-because-they-dont-have-enough-workers-e4c47a89
