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Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?

 
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Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?
In an article for the USA Today, writer Laura Parker quoted E. Fuller Torrey, the head psychiatrist at the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, VA, "'You can create the most beautiful treatment situation in the downtown Hilton Hotel and give out free coffee and free cigarettes but people will not accept medication if they don't think they're sick,' […]‘That's why people with severe mental illness must be treated involuntarily'" (A1). Most of the tim...

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