Here are some domains which the DOH/NHS can’t tackle on its own. 4. Drugs
1. MAPPA. 2. Violence. 3. Freedom of speech (specifically with regard to race, crime, gender, pronouns, what research subjects one may or may not bring to a round table or journal club without risking one’s career.)
4. Drugs.
Here’s where we are now. Psychiatric patients in Britain are extremely lucky, compared to most of the other 195-odd countries. There’s a difficult to calculate cross-pollination between illicit drugs, alcohol abuse, homelessness, mental illnesses and mental disorders but even without accurate numbers, there are far too many psych patients getting benefits, a nice house/flat/supported accommodation, with bills paid, plus a sweet mental health get-out-of-jail-free card, etc who regularly buy and take illicit drugs. That includes Ketamine.
There are no illicit drugs which help a psychiatric patient remain well and avoid relapse. There are illicit drugs which do immediately relieve some or all of the distress caused by symptoms. Until they wear off. Then the distress hasn’t disappeared, it’s still there, as strong as ever but now augmented by all those unpleasant and long term side effects of the illicit drugs. That makes the patient’s life worse, not better. Lots of mentally healthy people take drugs and experience no ill effects in their lives, they carry on just fine with their jobs, lives, interests, friends and families. Not so with psych patients.
So, where to from here?
War on drugs.
Peter Hitchens points out (in his book – ‘The war we never fought: the British Establishment’s surrender to drugs’) Britain never had a ‘war on drugs’, it was merely a slogan. Decades of police resources spent elsewhere, trendy prosecutors and steadily weakened laws has resulted in the worst and most murderous drug gangs – Albanians – moving in on Britain from their narco-state, shithole, non-country who are now running the show and killing anyone who disagrees. (*a)
Anyway, back to our patients. I am proposing a heavily resourced, merciless, draconian drug squad to target all (there must be no favourite ethnicities spared, Keir) dealers and gangs selling to patients. Fund it by eye-watering fines and confiscations if you like. Even entering the hospital grounds gets the dealer a custodial. No activist judges allowed. Do the same for supported living flats and accommodation, bail hostels, rehab, in fact any location receiving taxpayer funding to accommodate our patients should receive this protection. There are some hostels staffed only between 9-5. You should see the difference between day and night. Gangs rule at night. Patients are terrified. Lots of them have precious little will power and high doses of learned helplessness. (*b) In this regard, they do qualify as ‘vulnerable people’ a phrase that causes spontaneous bedwetting in Guardian reporters. Those patients can be protected. Target, seek and destroy, inconvenience, pull over, impound, hurt, fine, cripple (of course, I mean financially), imprison, confiscate, sequestrate and so on. (*c)
*a) Call me a horrid, unreconstructed racist but we shouldn’t have to tolerate one single Albanian living in Britain. Ok maybe an ambassador and a consul. We have no need of them and they are all too great a risk. Deport.
*b) I remember a pt phoning me up, in tears because a dealer (I suspect he was more than that, but couldn’t be sure) had moved back into his supported accommodation and he just knew he wouldn’t be able to say no.
I remember another pt, this was when I was working Crisis, who I was sent to because he was suicidal. I can’t swear to it but think he’d texted or phoned his neighbour – our patients often owe a lot to the one responsible, drug-free, employed, caring person in their block of flats – saying he couldn’t stand it anymore, and the neighbour had contacted Crisis. Now this isn’t as cut and dried as this short snippet sounds, the troop didn’t help himself, let’s say, but what had pushed him near the edge this time was a bigger, stronger scrote, on the outskirts of a criminal gang, who would come round when he’d run out of money and make my pt let him in, would drink all his alcohol, smoke all his cigarettes and use him as a punching bag. The pt didn’t have the strength or resilience to say no.
*c) Why doesn’t Britain try protecting our patients from that by using aggressive policing, fines and (put your blinkers on for this suggestion, Polly) corporal punishment? (Check Proverbs 26:3) How about, whenever a scrote re-targets a victim they were told to leave alone, they get double whatever the first punishment was ? Wouldn’t that give the patient a fair chance of living a successful life and managing their illness.
NB there’d also have to be pitiless prosecutions for any ‘concerned citizens’ filming any summary justice on their phones and selling it to the press. While we’re at it, let’s add some fines for when our heroic MSM publish shock horror ‘stories’ which weaken the law and order that protects your women and children. And medals and honour for the copper who keeps his beat safe from scrotes.
Leave a Reply