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Use of summons in involuntary civil commitment.
Washington state provides a number of mechanisms through which mentally ill individuals may be involuntarily committed. One method that has drawn considerable attention of late is a procedure whereby individuals may be summoned to an evaluation and treatment facility for 72 hours· by a county-designated mental health professional (CDMHP) in nonemergency circumstances. The issuance of a summons ...
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BACKGROUND Alcohol dependence is a chronic relapsing illness. While some patients respond to treatment, others continue to drink alcohol and suffer serious health effects such as delirium tremens, liver failure, heart disease, and central nervous effects. One option society has used to force treatment and abstinence is the legal mechanism of "involuntary commitment." The goal of this study was ...
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To the Editor: Having observed patient progress during conditional release (a form of involuntary outpatient commitment) and found the policy useful in protecting some individuals with serious mental illness, I anticipated positive results from the randomized clinical trial by Dr. Swartz et al. The investigators randomly assigned patients released from a mental hospital to one of two conditions...
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Szasz and others have pointed out that many so-called voluntary admissions to mental hospitals have various elements of coercion involved, and are thus not truly voluntary. The author contends that the converse situation is also true, that many patients admitted under involuntary commitment papers arrange for their own commitments. Reasons for such choices are discussed in the context of a revi...
متن کاملPetitioning for Involuntary Commitment for Chemical Dependency by Medical Services.
Patients who have chemical dependency (CD) are commonly encountered on medical and surgical wards, often for illnesses and injuries sustained as a direct result of their substance abuse. When these patients are repeatedly admitted to the hospital in certain states that provide a legal framework to commit chemically dependent persons to a treatment facility, clinicians often wonder whether they ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Addiction Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1932-0620
DOI: 10.1097/adm.0000000000000848