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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Pharmacy and Mental Health
Wednesday evening i was invited to address a meeting of Barnet Voice for Mental Health on my work as a pharmacist. I looked at the changes I have seen in dispensing psychotropic drugs in the last 43 years. I explained why I'd rather be in counselling than dispensing as drugs only help control symptoms, they do not touch causes of mental problems. I also said that I could not do secular counselling, It has to be wholistic and not rule out the spiritual or moral imperatives as is the fashion today. I did my best to answer questions on the specific drugs my hearers wanted to ask about. I explained why, as a man surrounded by such drugs, i would never take any. Bar tenders should beware lest opportunity leads to alcoholism.
Well said,i applaud your blog, mental health consumers are the least capable of self advocacy,my doctors made me take zyprexa for 4 years which was ineffective for my symptoms.
ReplyDeleteI now have a victims support page against Eli Lilly for it's Zyprexa product causing my diabetes.--Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com