Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Suicide Prevention in Prisons: Irish Institute of Naturopathic Medicine

1:40 pm

Ms Maureen Mulligan:

We see being in prison as a form of self-harm. With regard to osteopathy, some of them may have a serious heroin problem and they come and say they have a bad back. They come for the wrong reason but stay for the right one. We reach them in that way and it helps their male ego and deals with the "I'm not coming in to you to tell you about my problem" mentality. However, they come and we ask them about their other problems.

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