We need to find more effective, cost-saving medicines. Once developed, new medications will alleviate mentally retarded patients' pain and suffering and make it easier for caregivers to serve them in the community, Reiss said. However, he said, getting new medications developed will be challenging. Few scientists are conducting the needed research. The commercial markets are too small to attract the interest of the pharmaceutical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry has liability concerns about the vulnerability of people with mental retardation.
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