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FACT SHEET Myths about assisted treatment
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FACT SHEET What happens when an individual is forced to accept hospitalization or medication?
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RESOURCE Information on Kendra's Law, New York's assisted outpatient treatment law
Link page with various resources

STUDY Reducing violence in severe mental illness: Randomised controlled trial of intensive case management compared with standard care
British Medical Journal, November 10, 2001

REPORT The effectiveness of involuntary outpatient treatment: Empirical evidence and the experience of eight states. Summary table of results from outpatient commitment studies. (PDF)
RAND, 2001. Full report also available.

ARTICLE AOT and reduction of violent behavior in the severely mentally ill
British Journal of Psychiatry

ARTICLE Patients' attitudes toward having been forcibly medicated
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (summary of article)

ARTICLE If the system is comprehensive enough, affordable enough, accessible enough and pleasant enough, do you need an involuntary outpatient treatment law at all? 
Darold A. Treffert, MD, The Wisconsin Psychiatrist, Spring 2001

ARTICLE Can involuntary outpatient treatment reduce hospital return visits?
American Journal of Psychiatry (abstract)

LETTER New York counsel on how AOT works in that state
British William Martin, Esq., General Counsel for Mental Hygeine, New York

LETTER Ohio judge says civil commitment cases do not burden the court's docket or significantly impact its budget
The Honorable Randy T. Rogers, Butler County Common Pleas Court, Probate Division

LETTER Wisconsin judge and former prosecutor says outpatient commitment is win-win-win situation
The Honorable Ralph M. Ramirez, Branch 3 Circuit Court, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

OPED Duke researcher Jeffrey Swanson answers the question "Do court orders or just enhanced services alone yield positive clinical outcomes?"
Los Angeles Times, May 2001

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