Seanad debates

Thursday, 7 November 2002

Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements.

 

As a pharmacist, I have strong views on the model of psychiatry and treatment of psychiatry in the past. There may be a greater role for pharmacists who are drug experts to challenge the medical profession. I will be speaking to and listening to all the groups. We debated the drug Seroxat recently and much of what was said was unedifying and ill-informed. There are problems relating to drugs and how they are used which need to be examined. Nonetheless, there have been great advances in drug treatments for patients which have enabled them to be treated in the community.

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