The Right to Refuse Psychiatric Medication

Psychiatric News 14(23): 1 (December 7, 1979).

The Boston Globe, November 21, 1979, at 13.

Rogers v. Okin, 478 F. Supp. 134 (D. Mass. 1979).

M.G.L.A., c. 123, § 21.

Supra note 3, at 1377.

Id. at 1359, citing Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Regulations, § 221.02.

Id. at 1361, n. 12.

Id. at 1364.

Id.

Id. at 1365.

Id. at 1366, quoting 370 N.E.2d 417, 426 (Mass. 1977).

Id. at 1367.

Id. at 1370.

Id. at 1367.

Id. at 1382.

Id. at 1383.

Id. at 1385.

Id. at 1386.

Stone A.A. , Recent Mental Health Litigation: A Critical Perspective, American Journal of Psychiatry 134(3): 273, 276 (March 1977).

Rennie v. Klein, 462 F. Supp. 1131 (D.N.J. 1978).

Id. at 1144.

Civ. No. 73–19434–AW (Cir. Ct., Wayne County, Michigan, July 10, 1973) (unpublished opinion) summarized at 42 USLW 2063 (July 31, 1973).

Supra note 21, at 1144.

Id.

Supra note 3, at 1371.

Rennie v. Klein, 476 F. Supp. 1294 (N.J. 1979).

Supra note 21, at 1148.

Supra note 27, at 1315.

Addington v. Texas. 99 S.Ct. 1804 (1979).

Stone A. A. , Mental Health and Law: A System in Transition (Aronson, Jason, Inc., New York) (1976). A similar proposal has been made for parens patriae commitments in an article which also endorses police power commitments. See Roth L.H. , A Commitment Law for Patients, Doctors, and Lawyers, American Journal of Psychiatry 136(9): 1121–27 (September 1979).

Supra note 1, at 12.

Supra note 30, at 1809.

M.G.L.A., c. 123, § 1.

Supra note 3, at 1363.