Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of misconceptions about mental illness. Jamba is a social problem and not a prerequisite cause for mental illness. I believe people with ilnessess like schizophrenia, manic depression and multiple personalities were always viewed as mad in The Gambia. These illnesses are easily treatable if the appropriate drugs and care are made available to those in need of treatment. Therefore, the goal should be to educate the public about these issues as well as making the appropriate drugs available to the aflflicted. Campama is a dreadful place and hopefully the efforts of Tejan Nyang and Karim will spur someone to make the institution more humane. In no way am I defending the "dreadful" plant that God somehow put on Earth for us to make use of. I just wanted to put things in perspective. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------