Petition More funding for the treatment of schizophrenia and chronic mental illnesses.

It is estimated that 1 in 6 people in the uk have a mental illness of some kind during their lifetime. At any one time about 220,000 people are being treated directly for schizophrenia in the UK by the NHS. Sufferers have the highest rates of suicide partly due to the Ill side effects of neuroleptic

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More funding is needed to find a possible alternative to antipsychotics like cbd oil which has the potential to cure the disease short term without the side effects associated with neuroleptics.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/ministryofhemp.com/blog/cbd-for-schizophrenia/amp/

https://www.livingwithschizophreniauk.org/facts-and-figures/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17940070

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Date closed 29 July 2018
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