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Eleanor Riese and the right to refuse medication
The account: Involuntary patients medicated without consent or capacity determination
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- 1987
- People / institutions
- Eleanor Riese; St. Mary's Hospital, San Francisco; California Alliance for the Mentally Ill (amicus)
- Mechanism
- Forced antipsychotic medication under LPS
- Allegation
- Involuntary patients medicated without consent or capacity determination
- Finding or outcome
- JUDICIAL FINDING (209 Cal.App.3d 1303); codified Welf. & Inst. Code § 5332 (1991)
- Open questions
- Riese capacity hearings are the main in-hold safeguard — Batch 2: how often are they requested and granted?
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Reference and provenance
1987-CA-RIESE