Smoking bans are being implemented in psychiatric wards (including outdoor areas) all over Australia, forcing involuntary mental health patients to quit smoking against their will. These bans increase distress amongst people already in severe crisis, impede recovery and put people at risk. This cause aims to get these bans repealed, and smoking areas re-established in suitable outdoor areas.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
I end up in hospital again, so I do a little research
31 May 2010: I conducted a small study on fellow inpatients about the impact of the ban and found I wasn’t alone in my anger and distress. I tried to survey the nurses too, but was told that their contracts forbid them from speaking against hospital policy. Secretly though, five separate nurses talked to me about how much they hate the bans and don't want to enforce them. I couldn’t understand why this was happening.
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