while accompanying neil kinnock's tour of scotland in 1986 he began to display increasingly erratic behaviour, including dumping his hire car in the rosyth dockyard. he continued on that day, following kinnock on to perth, falkirk and finally hamilton where he had a nervous breakdown and was arrested by two special branch detectives. police contacted his partner and following her calls to friends in scotland the police let a family friend take campbell to ross hall hospital, a private bmi hospital in glasgow where she and her father visited him. over the next five days as an in-patient he was given medication to calm him, and he realised that he had an alcohol problem after seeing a psychiatrist. campbell said that from that day onwards he counted each day that he did not drink alcohol, and did not stop counting until he had reached thousands.