Smoking ban upheld in Rampton
Mad Pride | 24.07.2009 18:29 | Health | Social Struggles
Patients detained in Rampton special hospital today failed at an appeal court to overturn a ban which prevents them from smoking inside or outside hospital grounds, effectively forcing them to quit the habit. 
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Rampton-patients-fail-overturn-smoking-ban/article-1194491-detail/article.html
It's a ruling which seems entirely rooted in plain vindictiveness, especially when the overwhelming evidence suggests that smoking helps to alleviate the distressing symptoms of schizophrenia - see http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=smoking-away-schizophreni and many other scholarly articles.
Not all patients in the three secure special hospitals have passed through the criminal justice system and committed horrific crimes - a substantial proportion have simply become lost in institutional mental health, prey to the bullies who often make up staff members there and at the mercy of power-crazed psychiatrists.
http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/homenews/Rampton-patients-fail-overturn-smoking-ban/article-1194491-detail/article.html It's a ruling which seems entirely rooted in plain vindictiveness, especially when the overwhelming evidence suggests that smoking helps to alleviate the distressing symptoms of schizophrenia - see
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=smoking-away-schizophreni and many other scholarly articles. Not all patients in the three secure special hospitals have passed through the criminal justice system and committed horrific crimes - a substantial proportion have simply become lost in institutional mental health, prey to the bullies who often make up staff members there and at the mercy of power-crazed psychiatrists.
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