These two pediatricians draw from their years of experience with patients as well as research to come to the conclusion that society is doing an extreme disservice to our mentally ill. If more were done to treat mental illness in young people then maybe our jails would not be so overcrowded with severely mentally ill individuals that fell through the cracks when they were young. These two medical professionals have devised a plan for creating better mental health care for young adults. Sabo, L. (2015). Cost of Not Caring.
After the creation of these drugs and the closure of psychiatric wards, people stopped taking their drugs, and the effects of their illnesses, treatment was not received, and their behaviors deteriorated. Thus, crimes were committed, and inmate population increased. These inmates are more likely than any other type of inmate to have behavioral issues. As of 2005 there were 1,255,700 mentally ill inmates recorded within our state and federal prisons (Seiter, 2011). * According to Seiter (2011), in 2004 drug dependence or abuse criteria in the State prison was met by 40.3% of inmates and in Federal prison systems was met by 48.6%.
Mental Illness In Prisons – 1 Mental Illness In Prisons Jeremiah Small Kaplan University CM223-11AU Professor Lisa Malooly Mental Illness In Prisons – 2 The American Psychiatric Association has estimated that for every five people in prison, one of them suffer from some type of mental illness. Approximately 300,000 people in prison suffer from mental disorders ranging but not limited to major depression, post traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia. (Economist, 2003) Prisons can help people with mental illness by providing medications, counseling, and close supervision. Prisons need to start treating people with mental illness as patients and not inmates. First and foremost, people with mental disorders are not meant to be in prison.
For instance, electroshock therapy raised many questions such as, is this a safe form of treatment. It may sound scary but electroshock therapy is safe and is still used to treat patients today. After many years of research, author Ken Kessey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a book that would help end the abusive treatments that happened throughout mental hospitals (ProQuest Staff) Along with the abusive treatment, many people suffering from severe mental disorders are not able to be admitted to mental institutions causing hospitals to be at maximum capacity; up to 108,000 emergency rooms are full. And of the hundreds of thousands of adults with severe mental disorders, only about forty percent received treatment (Szabo). Another treatment for mentally ill people is prescription drugs.
The Los Angeles Times reported that by 2002 Purdue Pharma had identified hundreds of doctors who were prescribing OxyContin recklessly, yet they did little about it. The same article notes that it wasn’t until June of 2013, at a drug dependency conference in San Diego, that the database was ever even discussed in public. Combining the physician database with its expanded marketing, it would become one of Purdue's preeminent missions to make primary care doctors less judicious when it came to handing out OxyContin
I believe that the lack of proper planning for controlled living arrangements and for adequate treatment and rehabilitative services in the community has led to many surprising outcomes such as homelessness and criminal activity. This criminal activity is a direct result, I believe, in the lack of services needed to help those who suffer from mental illnesses to stay on track. The tendency for many chronic patients to become drifters and deviants force them into poverty and
With this being the case, antipsychotic medications often have side effects that need to be monitored regularly by the health professionals (Young et al, 2011). Compliance is often a challenge with patients either because of the unmanageable side effects they experience or through limited insight. It is a role of the health professionals involved in the care to closely monitor this behaviour, as the effectiveness of the treatment may be affected (Young et al, 2011). Keller, Drexler &Lichtenberg (2009) discuss the benefits of treating paranoid schizophrenia with atypical antipsychotic medication clozapine and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). However both forms of treatment are linked with harsh side effects.
Work-setting Problem Stigmatization of the mentally ill impairs their social relations and wellness (Foltz & Logsdon, 2009). Staff and family member should receive education regarding mental health disorders and conditions to decrease the stigmas and stereotypes of patients with mental health disorders or conditions. One in five Americans suffers from mental illnesses or disorders, although they fail to receive effective treatment for fear of negative reactions, stereotypes, discrimination, and stigmatization (Foltz & Logsdon, 2009). Stigma is a collaboration of negative attitudes, beliefs, thoughts and behaviors that influence the general public, to
EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate. This mandate for universal access shifted the cost to the hospitals. Hospitals and physicians risk substantial legal and financial penalties for violations of the mandate, with consequences as extreme as revocation of a hospital’s Medicare provider agreement (Diaz-Vickery, Sauser, & Davis, 2013). According to the American College of Emergency Doctors (ACEP) under EMTALA the emergency department has the only mandate to provide healthcare. A 2009 ACEP survey on the financial crisis stated, 66 percent of emergency physicians polled have seen an increase of uninsured patients in their emergency departments during the current financial
Also, the inequalities and disparities in the distribution and allocation of resources in mental health are indicative of the less important status accorded to this population group. To curb all these problems, care of the mentally ill in any society takes place within a complex historical, social, economic, political and cultural context. In Botswana, the care of the mentally ill has been impacted upon by colonialism, which has had a great impact on the healthcare system as a whole. There are different approaches that emerged in the organization of mental