TY - JOUR T1 - The lost sheep JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 517 LP - 517 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X693329 VL - 67 IS - 664 AU - Gervase Vernon Y1 - 2017/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/664/517.abstract N2 - Sarah* was, in many ways, the archetypal lost sheep. Brought up by poor immigrant parents, battered by her father as a girl, she never seemed to have a chance. For years we hardly saw her, hidden, as it were, in a back room by her widowed mother. She was on drugs: heroin, cannabis, anything she could lay her hands on. Then in her thirties she vanished for a long stretch inside one of Her Majesty’s Prisons. She returned more sinister than before, dragging an air of … ER -