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forcible medication  

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  • This entry discusses the involuntary administration of psychotropic medication, which continues to be one of the most controversial issues in mental health law. Whether mental patients in hospital, the community, jail, prison, or the judicial process may refuse psychotropic medication that the government would like to administer raises complex legal, clinical, moral, and social issues. [Source: Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law; Forcible Medication]

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