St Giles Hospital vs drugs, alcohol

Taitusi Sokiveta, Phoenix, Arizona For those who suffer from a mental illness because of drug and alcohol abuse or have an addiction, I think they need a separate hospital or facility from St Giles.

With that in mind, the specialised facility will be able to give these patients with these addictions special treatment and attention.

For example, the Betty Ford Clinic in California, a treatment hospital for those who have become dependent on alcohol, drugs or both.

This facility is not a mental asylum for the criminally insane or any other type of mental illness.

It is a licensed chemical dependency recovery hospital with detox services and treatment programmes for alcohol and drug addiction.

Even celebrities have been admitted at this rehabilitation facility.

Movie stars like Elizabeth Taylor, Anthony Hopkins and Nick Nolte, including singer Eric Clapton, Tyler of Aerosmith, Natalie Cole (daughter of Nat King Cole), Ray Charles and many more. Here the addicts go through a 12-step programme to deal with their drug or alcohol addiction.

I feel that those who are born with mental illness or suffer from any form of severe mental illness like schizophrenia, if medicine does not work for them, than they should be admitted to the St Giles Hospital.

Even the former US President, George Bush Junior, after dealing with his alcoholism stood for president.

I believe that mental asylum hospitals need to be separated from drug and alcohol addiction facilities.

I leave the idea to the authorities to ponder on.