Cannabis and psychosis
Coming off medication?
www.mind.org.uk/Shopping/Openmind/Extracts/Extract+from+Issue+123+Coming+off+medication.htm
Royal College of Psychiatrists statement on cannab
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pressparliament/pressreleasearchive/pr744.aspx
Breaking the Circles of Fear
www.scmh.org.uk/publications/publications_list.asp
A review of the relationship between mental health services and African and Caribbean communities. This major review documents the 'circles of fear' and the impediments to change which lead to poorer treatment and care of African and African Caribbean adults.
Glossary of terms
Some helpful glossaries can be found at the following sites:
wales.nhs.uk/sites3/docmetadata.cfm?orgid=256&id=37862
www.equality.leeds.ac.uk/ed/glossary/
Medication for people with schizophrenia
www.rethink.org/how_we_can_help/campaigning_for_change/rethink_policy_documents/treatment_recovery.html
Black Communities, Mental health and the Criminal
bmementalhealth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=55
Alternative Pathways Project Report
bmementalhealth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=56&Itemid=55
Cannabis-induced psychosis and subsequent schizoph
Follow-up study of 535 incident cases.
The 2006 Count Me In Census
bmementalhealth.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=55
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry (Macpherson Inquiry)
The concept of "institutional racism" was introduced in the Inquiry into the death of Steven Lawrence. Erase Racism's description of what is meant by the concept can be found here: http://www.eraseracismny.org/html/whatis/whatis.php.
David "Rocky" Bennett Inquiry
Rocky Bennett died of asphyxiation at a mental health unit in Norwich in October 1998 after being restrained by staff. The inquiry, chaired by former high court judge Sir John Blofeld and which reported in February 2003, also talks about institutional racism and restraint.
The mental health of the African Caribbean communi
www.mind.org.uk/Information/Factsheets/Diversity/The+African+Caribbean+Community+and+Mental+Health.htm
MIND has produced a fact sheet which gives an overview of how the mental health needs of the African-Caribbean community are negatively affected by many factors, including racism.
