Generally the problem drug on the wards is cannabis (bud if you want to be hip). There are always a group of young men and one or two women suffering from drug induced psychosis ,basically schizophrenia, from smoking too much weed. And it has a tendency to find its way onto the wards. This time though it was coke. 4 men clubbed together every night to get their next fix which was duly delivered o the hospital by the dealer.
But one night it went badly wrong. The retrospective view was that it wasn’t coke but ketamine or crushed up amphetamine. One of the 4 went very badly paranoid and set out to murder one of the others. He wrecked the ward and was punching through glass designed not to be punch through.In the end it took 17 police officers with riot shields and a police dog to corner him. The next day he was shipped off to a secure unit in London.The other 3 have sworn off drugs but we shall see.
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