NPIRS - HSE West Bulletin 2011

This bulletin is a synopsis of data for HSE West from the NPIRS for 2011 and that reported in the Activities of Irish Psychiatric Units and Hospitals 2011 (Daly and Walsh 2012). 

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Is this the 'tobacco moment' for cannabis?

Henry Cockburn was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2002 at the age of 20. Before that he was a heavy cannabis user. His father, Patrick Cockburn, The Independent's award-winning foreign correspondent, has long wondered whether the two were linked and spent months speaking to the world's leading experts in the field. In a four-part series prompted by his son's condition, he will examine the medical evidence linking sustained cannabis use with schizophrenia, before going on to look at the way the mentally ill have been let down by the health service and stigmatised by public opinion, and concluding on Thursday with his manifesto for a more humane and effective system – accompanied each day by Henry's account of his journey from pyschosis to a normal life.

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