Involuntary Commitment and Medication in Alaska:
Involuntary Commitment and Medication Are Deprivations of Fundamental Rights
When Involuntary Commitment Constitutionally Permissible
When Forced Drugging Constitutionally Permissible?
AS 47.30.655 Purpose of major revision.
Definition of Gravely
Disabled
(AS 47.30.915(7)
AS 47.30.705 Emergency detention for
evaluation
(“POA” or “Police Officer Application”)
30-Day Commitment
AS 47.30.725 – .735
90-Day
Commitment
(AS 47.30.740 -- .755)
180-Day
Commitments
(AS 47.30.770
Psychotropic
Medication
(AS 47.30.836 -- .839)
Involuntary Medication – Non Emergency (AS 47.30.839)
Psychiatric Drugs at Least Doubling Chronically Mentally Ill
Voluntary Aspiration Unfulfilled
Coercion: Psychiatry Has Lost Its Way
Importance of Effective Attorney