Tag Archives: alcohol

I Hate You So Much Right Now

July 2, 2008 – 5:35 pm

I recently did a post on my site about a bipolar guy who, while drunk and detained in a psychiatric hospital in the USA, threatened to kill the president. The staff reported this to the secret service and the guy was subsequently sentenced to almost five years in jail.
Timothy Pinkston was detained in a psychiatric [...]

By Mo | Posted in Help Wanted, Mental Illness, Passing Connection To Work | Also tagged | Comments (7)

DLA should not be given to people with disabilities

June 30, 2008 – 7:53 am

That’s the latest cry of the MoS:
That giant sucking sound you hear is the noise of money being vacuumed from the wages of productive workers into the pockets of dubious welfare claimants.
..writes a MoS journalist, who, by definition of his chosen career, is also a dubious claimant to being a productive member of society. It [...]

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My Brother the Alcoholic (2)

June 17, 2008 – 8:46 am

The first thing to remember about acute psychiatric wards is that they are very boring places to be (unless you are floridly psychotic of course then things can get a bit more interesting). The ward where my brother was confined, (and I use the word confined advisedly because for the first four days he [...]

By E | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Comments (14)

My Brother the Alcoholic (1)

June 13, 2008 – 2:18 pm

My brother is an Alcoholic. Not a two bottles of vodka a day man more a bottle of red wine, six cans of larger a glass of Baileys with ice and a packet of wine gums sort of a guy. So he is not in the premier drinking league but well on the [...]

By E | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Comments (14)

A desperate new generation driven to Drink

June 2, 2008 – 8:56 pm

This piece in the times by India Night in which she says
“The fact of the matter is that the binge-drinking problem is largely an underclass problem. Teen pregnancies are largely an underclass problem. Teenage crime is largely an underclass problem. Child neglect – we live in a country where a little girl allegedly starved to [...]

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Trust me … I’m a Nurse ..with added Oxytocin

June 2, 2008 – 2:28 pm

So we’re about to cure social phobia. Or at least that’s the aim behind the latest trials for Oxytocin - a wonder drug that helps us to trust more.
Nicknamed the “cuddle chemical”, oxytocin is a naturally produced hormone, which has been shown to play a role in social relations, maternal bonding, and also in sex
Ok, [...]

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Caption Competition (2)

May 7, 2008 – 5:49 pm

We haven’t done a caption competition for a while, so let’s do one.
The theme of this caption competition is…substance misuse.

By zarathustra | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Also tagged | Comments (13)

Oddbins - drumming up business for mental health services

September 6, 2007 – 2:45 pm

Adolescent binge-drinking is associated with a whole heap of trouble in later life, according to a new study from The Institute of Child Health: -
The researchers looked at the drinking habits of 16-year-olds in 1986 and then compared that to what had happened to them by the time they were 30.
The study, published in the [...]

By beakie | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Comments (3)

Alcoholics: Mental, diseased or just Selfish

August 13, 2007 – 12:49 am

As requested by Lou, I have decided to write my take on alcoholism.
I believe that some alcoholics are mentally unwell and they use alcohol to dampen their emotional pain…as some have suggested on this site before:-
“until such time as the pharmaceutical industry come up with a pill that helps like alcohol does, it will continue [...]

By flowergirl | Posted in Passing Connection To Work | Comments (19)