Narrating Injustice Survival by Willem de Lint & Marinella Marmo

Author:Willem de Lint & Marinella Marmo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

In some cases, GPs prescribing sleeping pills in response to a victim’s disclosure of their trauma was noted by counsellors. This was also a result of our survey, whereby the most significant AOD increase after victimisation was in relation to doctor-prescribed medication, with more than half of the sample reporting use. The counsellors reflected on the reluctance of victims to take up prescribed drugs because they were already self-medicating with other substances to include tobacco. Also, in some cases, the victim displayed awareness that prescribed drugs may link to further self-medication and additivity. As one counsellor observed:FG2 VSS001:If clients do go and see their doctor within a week of the crime occurring, I do find the first thing they are prescribed with are sleeping pills. And whether that leads to an increase in self-medication and things like that I’m not sure. But it is a very general thing that doctors do in my experience.

My experience in particular with doctor-prescribed medication with … I find a lot of the clients that I see, especially with the sleeping tablets … I’ve come across so many clients that are reluctant or refusing to take them, um, because of the addictive concern. So I found that interesting, that even clients who would self-medicate with cannabis or cigarettes, but refuse to take the sleeping tablets that they’ve been prescribed.

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