Daniel Allen considers a novel approach to beating the blues
It is amazing what we waste our money on. Christmas, for example, and extended warranties. Then there are drugs: oodles of uppers, doled out by doctors keen to rid their waiting rooms of the down beat and the down trodden. I feel for these people. They go in search of succour and are sent away with a blister pack. The prescription helps – for a while. Then one day it stops helping, but is hard to give up. So now the person has two problems: the original one and a burgeoning addiction.
Nursing Standard. 19, 19, 22-22. doi: 10.7748/ns.19.19.22.s31
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