British Columbia Guidance on Involuntary Treatment
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New guidance lays out when B.C. doctors can and can’t use involuntary treatment | Globalnews.ca

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B.C. government releases guidance to doctors and health authorities on when the Mental Health Act may be used to treat people with substance use and mental health disorders.
The 11 -page guidance document lays out a trio of scenarios under which someone can be treated involuntarily under the act, all of them involving mental impairment.
The law does not, otherwise, permit doctors to use involuntary treatment to stop someone’s “risky decision-making’.
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