> Last I heard, he'd been heavily sedated during an interview, Do you have a link to a source? I know a lot about use of restraint and rapid tranquillisation

> Last I heard, he'd been heavily sedated during an interview, Do you have a link to a source? I know a lot about use of restraint and rapid tranquillisation on people with mental illness and this sounds like an unlikely situation. EDIT: after having read your source and I can say it's fucking bullshit. EDIT2: In the spirit of teaching people stuff. All episodes of restraint of mental health patients in England is supposed to be recorded. This should include all types of restraint where a staff member puts a hand on the patient. This range stretches from prone restraint and rapid tranquillisation all the way to "guiding hand" ("hey Bob, I can see your annoyed. Come and have a cup of tea and tell me what's going on" with a hand on the shoulder is probably an incident of recordable restraint). We want to end all episodes of restraint. We especially want to end all episodes of prone restraint because it's traumatic, degrading, and dangerous. We want to avoid all other forms of restraint because preventative working to avoid the situation happening is better for that patient, for other patients, and for staff. If you want to see what we're doing to try to end restraint the "Reducing Restrictive Practice" programme might be interesting (although it's heavily aimed at staff and patients in MH settings in England) https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/nccmh/reducing-restrictive-practice https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-care/nccmh/reducing-rest... Restraint is used in in-patient mental health settings, and in in-patient learning disability and intellectual disability settings. Mental health settings can include prisons and also "forensic" (secure) hospitals. (Secure is a bit of jargon with specific meaning in the context of MH care). So, if you want to claim a prisoner is being restrained and drugged it would be easy to make this credible. Use words like "supine restraint" and "rapid tranquillisation". Get the names of the meds right. Say that you've put in FoI requests but were denied access to someone's medical information. But also put in an FoI request to see total numbers of restraint and rapid tranq being used in that setting. There's probably a name for this thing where a conspiracy theory is such obvious bollocks that the only people who believe it are other conspiracy theorists. I guess it's a bit like some email scams are deliberately full of typos in order to select a particular audience.