Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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And you're listening to the Health Report here on ABC Radio National with me, Norman Swan.
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One of the most difficult and controversial areas in the care of the seriously mentally ill is when a person is violent.
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They can harm themselves and others.
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And while the idea of talking them down gently might give you the warm and fuzzies, especially if you've been primed by institutional horror stories like one flew over the cuckoo's nest,
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The practical reality is that drugs are often needed.
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The question is which drugs are safest and best?
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Remarkably, there's been almost no evidence on this, at least until a trial performed at the Christian Medical College in Valore by Prathup Tharian, who, like his wife Anna, is also professor of psychiatry.
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Prath is internationally recognized for his work in evidence based medicine.
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Profit Tharian, who heads the South Asian Cochrane Center, which is part of the Cochrane Collaboration, a worldwide network of researchers devoted to bringing together, analysing and disseminating the best available evidence on health care.
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One of Prathop's colleagues is Clive Adams, professor of mental health services research at the University of Nottingham in the UK, who runs the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group.
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Clive also has an interest in the treatment of violence and was visiting Valore when I was there.
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At the same time you were doing a similar trial here?
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like drug.
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not some artificial situation.
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This is real life.
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And what did you find here?
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not
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So this is uh one of the newer drugs for again against schizophrenia, which has also been a
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they couldn't have been that off
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A locked ward.
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