Information on different States from Law Project for Psychiatric Rights

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United States & International

This page is intended to provide information on a state by state basis as well as some other countries. We don't have information on all of the states, but Mental Health Law at MegaLaw has a state by state listing of laws pertaining to mental health. We can't really vouch for its accuracy though, particularly since at first glance we noticed that it doesn't seem to include the involuntary medication statutes for Alaska. The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law has a state by state guide to outpatient commitment laws. This guide does not include information about "Rogers Orders" in Massachusetts, though so we don't know if there are other situations like that. The Bazelon Center has also published Bazelon Psychiatric Advance Directive Forms to Prepare an Advance Directive for Mental Health Decisionmaking. There is also an online database of mental health professionals convicted of crimes.

International

Survivors’ Panel marks a milestone at 2019 International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Leah M. Ashe, PhD, August 5, 2019.
Users and Survivors of Psychiatry on the International Stage: A Snapshot, by Peter Lehmann, December, 2008.
International Human Rights and Comparative Mental Disability Law: The Role of Institutional Psychiatry in the Suppression of Political Dissent, by Michael Perlin, New York Law School Public Law and Legal Theory, Research Paper Series 05/06 # 15
Challenging the globalisation of biomedical psychiatry, Journal of Public Mental Health, vol 4, issue 3, 2005
European Court of Human Rights Decisions, compiled February, 2011.

The states and countries we have some information on are:

States
Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Idaho	Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi	Missouri Montana New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon	Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin
Countries		International Organizations
Australia Austria Canada Germany Ireland Israel The Netherlands	New Zealand Norway South Africa Sweden Switzerland Uganda United Kingdom	United Nations European Union (EU) European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) International Critical Psychiatry Network (ICPN) Organization of American States (OAS) World Health Organization World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)

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