Thursday, 21 April 2011

Music instead of the chemical cosh?

http://www.chinamusictherapy.org/file/doc/Is%20Music%20Therapy%20an%20Effective%20Intervention%20for%20Dementia_%20A%20Meta-Analytic%20Review%20of%20Literature.pdf

There are clearly alternatives to the chemical cosh in dementia. I still
feel it's a society which recognises tolerance of madness can save lives
might be the significant step forward. Just because a behaviour can be
'treated' with drugs doesn't mean that it's the right thing. Tolerance
for the diversity and breadth of the human condition and how it
expresses through out a person's life is perhaps the way forward.

Killing the elderly using unnecessary medication breaches the
Hippocratic Oath. First do no fucking harm you murdering cunts. That's
sort of how it goes. I paraphrase.

The above paper is just one alternative, one which had been established
long before the chemical cosh began to be used in the community. The
medical profession could have kept its right to use the Hippocratic Oath
if they thought of these evidence-based alternatives before killing the
elderly with major tranquilliser medication.

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