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Forced Medication and Competency to Stand Trial: Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Issues

Kirk Heilbrun, PhD;Christopher M. King, JD, PhD

April 29th 2017

The authors examine legal and ethical challenges for the psychiatrist when a defendant who is incompetent to stand trial declines to take prescribed psychotropic medication.

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