http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/juez/ve/sorprendente/esquizofrenico/causo/accidente/mortal/sacara/carne/elpepuesp/20100202elpepunac_29/Tes
As noted that this judge does not see many patients. The same also surprised that some people diagnosed with schizophrenia university studying, working, playing sports, driving heavy machinery, or more complex tasks such as getting married or having children.
For those who are "surprised" as much as the judge must be said that English law states you have to do a review of physical and mental health in order to declare a person unfit to have his driver's license.
In the case of mental patients are considered unfit to drive when they are stabilized for long enough, comply with their treatment and this did not reduce the ability to drive. For though the medication may cause drowsiness and decreased reflexes, over time these effects disappear. What we do is intended to increase the frequency of revisions, eg annually or biannually to obtain information on compliance and mental state.
Some will tell me to "go danger, a leading ... or is it schizophrenic who killed two people ..." The answer is simple. There are more people who fall asleep at the wheel by another disease, sleep apnea, people who are not treated with CPAP, or regime does not even diagnosed (and have a higher prevalence than schizophrenia) and certainly can cause accidents which kill other people.
I have not seen any headline "The judge is surprising that a sleep apneic have a driver's license."
And we can extend to diabetics, epileptics, hypercholesterolemia, angina ... or just people alive (a good cold is a frequent cause of confusion, cough, malaise, devolution and accidents).
Come on, that the problem here is that you put in the opposite direction, not schizophrenia. That is, negligent manslaughter serious. And do not get into more diagnoses.
And that can happen to anyone. So cuidaito with the car.
Ah! The newspaper also says that absolves him from the defense of mental illness. This is not so, it is declared "no fault" but you are sentenced to detention and banned from driving.
And that is when a person commits an offense not acquitted because of mental illness, attenuates pain and indicated a sentence of treatment, not jail. But the sentence offender who takes it. And the psychiatric penitentiary prisons remain.
DRIVING FITNESS FOR PATIENTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS : EVALUATION IN THE CENTER OF RECOGNITION OF DRIVERS. Maria Trinidad Gomez Talegón , Fierro Inmaculada Lorenzo , A. Vicondoa , Ozcoidi Marta Val , Francisco Javier Alvarez Gonzalez
Biological Psychiatry : official publication of the English Society of Biological Psychiatry , ISSN 1134-5934, Vol. 15, N º. 3, 2008 , pags. 63-72
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