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Payment for medication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Ogden*
Affiliation:
Forest of Dean, email: [email protected]
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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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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