I went to a 'specialist' personality disorder unit and met a woman taking clozapine.

'Has anyone ever mentioned it's against NICE guidelines for you to be taking this long term?'

'Everyone here is on it'

Calls for better monitoring of antipsychotic drug linked to hundreds of deaths
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First publication is out on work about Understanding the use of Psychotropic Medication in Children and Young People’s Mental Health Inpatient Services across England, There are a number of other publications, targeted at different audiences, still to come.…

I sometimes wonder about the point/value of petitions. BUT here the Welsh Govt are in huge denial that this ‘problem’ even exists. (Weep angry tears.) Please do sign and RT/share the hell out of it if you’re inclined. Diolch.

Here's the full text. Grateful to folks referenced including Éidín Ní Shé Rich Pancost GeorgeJulian Dr Eppie Leishman Chris Hatton Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met My Life My Choice York People First & The Parents Project Dr Suzanne Glover Dr Dawn Cavanagh #stolenlives Prof Ryan #laughingboy
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Following on from the #StolenLivesWales campaign #HomesNotHospitals protest at the Senedd recently, more shocking stories about people with a learning disability being locked away for years have emerged from Scotland. This has to stop.

'We cannot comment on individual cases' wins 'my what excuse can we give so we don't have to take any responsibility' of the year award.

No words. 😢

Seclusion traumatises.

It is such a harmful practice.

It caused my boy so much suffering.

‘It’s not human what they did to my son…it’s torture.’

Fifty years…shameful.

Stolen Lives knows of someone who has been locked up for 66 years.

All because the person has a learning disability.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
#StolenLives Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Eluned Morgan Welsh Government Lesley Griffiths

Alison means the #stolenlives protest. Yet the Welsh Government say no one is “inappropriately placed.”

A culture that firstly enables this abuse, then effectively sanctions it as perpetrators keep their jobs. And 'calming rooms' ffs, one, an old stationery cupboard (and I was just posting about successful lives. So hard to have faith in humanity sometimes.
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Imagine hating disabled people so much, that with your last dying breath, you give them one final punch on your way out Conservatives