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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:16:23 -0500 (EST)


Subject: FYI - Fwd: URL's re: "involuntary medication": search

Tuesday, January 5, 1999

Hello,

Below is a forward of the results of a internet search that I did
yesterday on Metafind for "involuntary medication" which is part of
ongoing research and work that I am engaged in over a period of time.

I don't always send out the results of this work to everyone, but this
is one of those times that I thought that I would as an FYI.

In addition, while I am doing that, here are some other excellent search
engines and internet resources FYI, just in case you may not already be
aware of them, which include:

* Dogpile:

http://www.***.com/

* Northern Light:

http://www.***.com/

Other good internet research resources include:

* Basic Reference:

http://www.***.com/

* Find Law -- Internet Legal Resources:

http://www.***.com/

* World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law: Main Index:

http://www.***.com/

* Paul J. Donovan's Legal Research Links:
(Paul works at the VT Law Library as a Law librarian)

http://www.***.com/ ~pjdonovan/index.html

* Vermont Newspaper Project:

http://www.***.com/

Morgan W. Brown  
Montpelier Vermont USA
Norsehorse's Home Turf: http://www.***.com/ ~Norsehorse/

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* Via Metafind:

http://www.***.com/

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Searching for: "involuntary medication"

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* These three links below, regard people who are homeless in Wisconsin
who are labelled with mental illness:

INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT FOR TREATMENT
According to the Mental Health Act of the Wisconsin
Statutes 51.20:

http://www.***.com/

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CLIENT RIGHTS & ISSUES:

http://www.***.com/

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CAMPUS HOMELESS PROJECT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at MADISON:

http://www.***.com/

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VERMONT STATUTES ONLINE
Title 18. Health
Chapter 181. Judicial Proceedings
7611. INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT:

http://www.***.com/

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Psychiatric Involuntary Treatment:
Developments in Mental Hygiene Law
in 1993 by Paul F. Stavis, Counsel to the Commission:

http://www.***.com/

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Recent Cases of the Supreme Court:
Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
by Paul F. Stavis, Counsel to the Commission :

http://www.***.com/

-- includes the following quotes:

"Due Process and Involuntary Administration
of Anti-Psychotic {*filter*}

"Treating a person with powerful anti-psychotic medications
is a very serious matter. While such {*filter*} might well be
crucial for the amelioration of a mental illness, they
often have well-known negative side effects which could
include extrapyramidal movements, and even death in some circumstances.

"The legal issue that has arisen is not whether a competent
person with mental illness has the right to refuse treatment
with anti-psychotic medications in non-emergency situations;
everyone agrees that they do. Rather, the issue is who
determines the competency or validity of the patient's
objection (i.e., should it be taken seriously?); and, if
treatment over the patient's objection is to proceed, then
who determines what treatment is in that patient's best
interests?

"Generally speaking, there are three possibilities, two of
which involve a "clinical" determination of incompetency
(i.e., by a clinician or other qualified professional)
and the third involves a "judicial" determination of
incompetency (i.e., by a court or quasi-judicial body).(6)
Assuming in all of the following cases that the patient
expresses an objection or refusal to the proposal for
anti-psychotic medication, such treatment can proceed
nevertheless under three types of due process:

"Type-I
       a physician, with optional or mandatory consultation
from another physician, can make the determination of the \
patient's competency to object and treat accordingly;

"Type-II
       a psychiatrist's proposal to administer
anti-psychotic medications can be submitted to a facility
committee for ratification or rejection (an
administrative-type proceeding); or,

"Type-III
       the case must be brought to a court of law for a
judicial proceeding on the patient's competency and the appropriateness
of and any subsequent course of treatment.

"Up to now and in general, state courts have increasingly
been opting for type-III, by requiring judicial hearings for
patients who object to anti-psychotic medications. The
federal courts have tended to approve types I or II, as long
as some judicial review was eventually or ultimately
available to appeal from the administrative process."

[ "..." and more at the above URL]

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Involuntary Hospitalization in the Modern Era:
Is "Dangerousness" Ambiguous or Obsolete?
by Paul F. Stavis, Counsel to the Commission
(New York State Commission on Quality of Care
for the Mentally Disabled):

http://www.***.com/

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New York State Commission on Quality of Care
for the Mentally Disabled:

http://www.***.com/

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>From the Commission's Counsel

http://www.***.com/

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Monitors: Journal of Human Rights and Technology, Vol.1, February, 1997

Shrinking the Freedom of Thought:
How Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Violates Basic Human
Rights By Richard Gosden:

http://www.***.com/

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Human Rights Internet:

http://www.***.com/

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University of Chicago Hospitals' Policy
Involuntary Psychiatric Admission
Policy:

http://www.***.com/

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Ethics Policies and Codes:

http://www.***.com/ #UCH

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MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
At the University of Chicago:

http://www.***.com/

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