{"id":3846,"date":"2009-08-07T10:09:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2016-09-21T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:26:40","slug":"number-of-drink-and-drug-abusers-filling-mental-hospitals-soars-by-a-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/number-of-drink-and-drug-abusers-filling-mental-hospitals-soars-by-a-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Number of drink and drug abusers filling mental hospitals soars by a third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">The number of alcohol and drug abusers being treated by mental hospitals has leapt by almost a third in five years.\u00a0\u00a0 Doctors have also charted a rising number of patients being sectioned because of psychiatric problems &#8211; many in private hospitals at NHS expense.<br \/>\nCritics last night blamed the binge drink and drug culture for creating more mental health disorders, while cuts in NHS beds are increasing dependency on the private sector.\u00a0 Critics blame binge drink and drug culture for creating more mental health disorders<br \/>\nA report by three psychiatrists in the British Medical Journal says there is concern about an era of &#8216;re-institutionalisation&#8217; within mental hospitals.<br \/>\nThe number of hospital beds dropped from 150,000 in the 1950s to less than 55,000 in 1995 in favour of community care but demand appears to be rising, they say.\u00a0\u00a0 The number of sectioned patients &#8211; taken into hospital under compulsory orders &#8211; has increased by 20 per cent over the last decade.<br \/>\nThe psychiatrists found a 29 per cent rise in admissions by alcohol and drug abusers since 2003.\u00a0 They say the numbers have changed the environment on psychiatric wards with reports of patients with depression feeling intimidated and even attacked by those with drink and drug problems.<br \/>\nTories claimed the increase was not being helped by Labour &#8216;mixed messages&#8217; on the dangers of drugs and its rolling out of 24-hour drinking.<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MailOnline\"><em>www.MailOnline<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0 Oct.2008<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of alcohol and drug abusers being treated by mental hospitals has leapt by almost a third in five years.\u00a0\u00a0 Doctors have also charted a rising number of patients being sectioned because of psychiatric problems &#8211; many in private hospitals at NHS expense. Critics last night blamed the binge drink and drug culture for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,68,41,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-drug-use-effects-on-foetus","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}