don't.
Drug addicts can face an arduous and painful path through healthcare.
When they are suffering mental healthcare uses the opportunity to do
what it does best: be a system to enforce behavioural modification in
the name of best interests (irrespective of the expressed choices).
Cults do this. They look for destitute and despairing individuals. A
person who has been brought to their knees by the suffering in life is
malleable. Techniques like this can be used in warfare, for example to
make people suffer to the point where they break down.
A person in crisis is very vulnerable and services will often use this
opportunity to refer the person, regardless of their expressed choice,
to drug and alcohol services. It is in the best interests of mental
health services and it is their vision of the best interests of the
individual. It is nothing whatsoever to do with the individual, their
choices and how they've learned to live. It is regardless of the pain
they have suffered and continue to suffer.
Distress or behavioural control? Lived experience is useful when
understanding where the NHS mental healthcare system sits on that
spectrum. It's really fucking useful for knowing just how much progress
is needed.
The NHS vision:
be as we want you to be then we might, perhaps, help you.
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