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Mental Hospital Drugging - Atomistic And Structural Remedies, Sheldon Gelman

Cleveland State Law Review

Despite their importance, the discussion of remedies for state hospital drugging has been largely ad hoc and uninformed. This study attempts to fill that gap. It explores four such remedies, attempting to identify the vision of the drug problem that underlies each one; to evaluate that vision and its plausibility; and to determine what the actual effects of imposing the remedy would be. Part I distinguishes between two approaches to remedy-"structural" and "atomistic"-and, as a basis for testing the two, describes a state hospital's handling of the most serious drug side effect. Part II explores a family of atomistic remedies. …