On the need to have “rules” to regulate covert medication

Exhorting psychiatrists to use covert medication is not right. Unlike in pediatrics and geriatrics, a small section of schizophrenics and mood disorder patients with full awareness of their legal rights, vehemently refuse medications. In such cases “rules” are required to regulate covert medication,...

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Autor principal: Antony, James T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3512365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23226852
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.102428
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description Exhorting psychiatrists to use covert medication is not right. Unlike in pediatrics and geriatrics, a small section of schizophrenics and mood disorder patients with full awareness of their legal rights, vehemently refuse medications. In such cases “rules” are required to regulate covert medication, forced medication etc. Only that way both patients’ right for autonomy and the professionals duty to administer treatment could be simultaneously taken care of. Section 19 of the Mental Health Act 1987 provides the required legal provision for this. Civil society expects psychiatrists too to function within the boundaries set by a legal framework.
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spelling pubmed-35123652012-12-07 On the need to have “rules” to regulate covert medication Antony, James T. Indian J Psychiatry Special Theme Exhorting psychiatrists to use covert medication is not right. Unlike in pediatrics and geriatrics, a small section of schizophrenics and mood disorder patients with full awareness of their legal rights, vehemently refuse medications. In such cases “rules” are required to regulate covert medication, forced medication etc. Only that way both patients’ right for autonomy and the professionals duty to administer treatment could be simultaneously taken care of. Section 19 of the Mental Health Act 1987 provides the required legal provision for this. Civil society expects psychiatrists too to function within the boundaries set by a legal framework. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3512365/ /pubmed/23226852 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.102428 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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