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Re:Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease? by nradov on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:56PM (#23886388)
What about patients who present a serious risk of harm to themselves and others? Should they be medicated without consent? Sometimes the only other option is indefinite confinement in a mental facility.
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Re:Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease? by blame_lewis on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:59PM (#23886404)
Asterisk. I meant in the long term. In the very short term, hospital can be an option, but asylums no longer exist in first-world nations.

Our treatment systems simply do not currently have an effective long-term way of handling patients that outright refuse to take their medication.

In practical terms, these days most people in that situation end up in prisons instead.

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