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Payment for medication

Locum Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, Forest of Dean, email: david.ogden{at}glos.nhs.uk

Ethical deliberations aside, bribing patients with cash to accept depot medication clearly (and perhaps fatally) contradicts the message that the medication is a worthwhile and positive offering in itself. Moreover, it cheapens and demeans the receiver who becomes one whose beliefs can be bought out for a few quid; and the giver, who becomes one who needs sugaring to be acceptable. Contradictory messages regarding the value of psychiatry are the last thing people with schizophrenia need from us, never mind our staff and the public.

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