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The proven harm of forced behavioral health treatment raises question of whether the treating psychiatrists violate Hippocratic oath of “first do no harm.”

A new study found that patients involuntarily committed for substance use disorder relapsed within the first year after release.

"Civil commitment has emerged as a sometimes compelling yet controversial policy option," according to the new study, led by Abhishek Jain, MD. At the time of the study, Dr. Jain was at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. The report is accompanied by a pair of expert commentaries: one discussing the idea of civil commitment in a historical context and another highlighting the dangers of coercive treatment and patient harm. Physician specialists agree: more education an...