APA v Courts: " ... physicians have the authority to administer 
psychotropic medications involuntarily ... "

Despite the appellate court's July 12 order to halt the forced use of 
antipsychotics until a late August hearing, the psychiatrists 
treating Loughner resumed involuntary medical treatment "on an 
emergency basis" upon concluding that his mental faculties were 
rapidly deteriorating and that he represented a danger to himself. On 
July 21, the 9th Circuit Court denied the defense's emergency motion 
to enforce the injunction and compel the prison hospital to produce 
daily records documenting the use of antipsychotic medications.

<http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/17/1.2.full>http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/17/1.2.full 




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