05 May 2008

Enjoy the 'holiday' while it lasts

The secure, prison-like, psychiatric facilities where patients are imprisoned, whoops, 'detained,' for their own good and for the good of others, aren't so secure as it turns out. I saw this headline, Psychiatric patients went AWOL 82 times where unauthorised absences seem a common occurrence.

Now for the test: did any of the escapees harm themselves or others while they were 'on holiday?' I doubt it, otherwise we'd have heard about it. But I'll bet the needles were waiting for them when they got dragged back through the 'secure' doors. Therapeutic needles or punitive ones?

Now that the problem's been highlighted, I suspect the authorities will 'investigate' and make 'improvements' so the patients sure as hell won't get out ever again, ever, ever, ever.

As far as the psychiatrist is concerned, patients running away have proven themselves to be dangerous so it's going take a long, long, long time before the patient's back to some kind of normality.

Well, am I right?

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