The right against treatment: behavior modification and the involuntarily committed.

Constitutional law--mental health--a patient involuntarily civilly committed to a state mental hospital has a constitutional right to treatment.

Right to refuse treatment: impact of Rivers v. Katz.

This article examines the impact of the New York court decision, Rivers v. Katz, which in June 1986 dramatically changed the state procedure for responding to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients who formally refused psychopharmacologic treatment. The court rejected the medically administered review process that had been used to respond to involuntarily committed psychiatric patients wh...

Protecting our mentally ill: a critique of the role of Indiana state courts in protecting involuntarily committed mental patients' right to refuse medication.

Sociology, 1997, Virginia Commonwealth University. Special thanks to my wife, Vickey, and to my family, Mike, Denise, and Daniel, for their love and encouragement. 1. Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307, 316 (1982); Mills v. Rogers, 457 U.S. 291, 299 (1982); see also James A. King, Comment, An Involuntary Mental Patient’s Right to Refuse Treatment with Antipsychotic Drugs: A Reassessment, 48 OHIO ...

Riese v. St. Mary's Hospital and Medical Center.

An involuntarily committed mentally ill patient was held to retain the right to refuse treatment with antipsychotic drugs, unless the committing court specifically denies the patient this right and authorizes a conservator to make an informed consent decision. The California Court of Appeal reversed a lower court ruling which had allowed the forcible injection of medication into a patient who ...

The right to refuse treatment and the abolition of involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.

Civil commitment involves abridgment of civil rights of the mentally ill person. The involuntarily hospitalized patient is deprived of many elementary rights" which the average citizen takes for granted, such as visitation, written communication and compensation for work." , Furthermore, the committed patients often have been deprived of various rights dealing with their functioning in the soci...