Archive for February, 2010
Eating disorder sufferers in UK ’still face bullying, discrimination’
No CommentsEighty percent of sufferers still feel stigmatised, not only by the public but also by some health professionals, according to the charity Beat.annah, who recovered from her eating disorder years ago, feels doctors did not trust her when they saw her medical history after she was admitted to hospital with a life threatening condition.
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Ireland’s first dedicated residential treatment centre for eating disorders opens today
No CommentsLois Bridges will be the first dedicated residential treatment centre for eating disorders in Ireland when it opens its doors in Sutton, Dublin, today.
The need for more beds to treat the illness was highlighted four years ago in the Government mental health plan A Vision for Change, but there are still fewer than 20 beds for treating patients with eating disorders between St John of God’s, St Patrick’s and St Vincent’s hospitals.
Airbrushed fashion magazine spreads should bear a warning label, say British psychiatrists
No CommentsCars come with warnings that note: “Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear.”
If a group of esteemed British shrinks has its way, photos in fashion mags will follow suit and note: “Models in these pictures may look skinnier than they really are.”
The Royal College of Psychiatrists called for warning symbols to accompany airbrushed snaps of models and stars as a way to battle eating disorders and to stop people from chasing “unattainable physical perfection,” reports London’s Independent newspaper
Walking proof that methadone is failing after 20 years in treatment
No CommentsIf further proof were needed of the government’s failed ‘methadone prescribing to reduce re offending’ strategy then it was given in a Scottish Court last week.
The presiding judge had had enough. He stopped the 20 year long methadone script of the offender in the dock before him who, despite it, had failed to turn up for his less than stringent community sentence order. The judge refused to accept the doctor’s sick note for anxiety excuse. What infuriated the judge was that despite methadone from boyhood (age 16 he’d been put on it) a cost of some £20,000, the man had neither quit his 20 year heroin habit nor halted his re offending.
Alcohol use disorders – clinical management: pre-publication check
No CommentsFollowing consultation on the provisional recommendations, the National Clinical Guideline Centre for Acute and Chronic Conditions and the Acute Coronary Syndromes Guideline Development Group (GDG) have considered and responded to stakeholder comments and amended the draft guideline [NICE, UK]
