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J W Parry

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PubMed1992

Incompetence, treatment refusal, and hospitalization.

Psychiatrists have proposed broadened commitment statues based on need for care and treatment, and under which judges have no role in deciding cases of treatment refusal. The mental health bar has consistently opposed these proposals on constitutional and common law grounds. The authors propose new commitment criteria based on incompetency to decide about hospitalization, and inability to live safely in freedom. The proposed standards would meet the Constitutional requirements, and would permit hospitalization and/or treatment for many persons who are in need but who now go without. The authors recognize that new commitment law without adequate clinical resources will not greatly improve patient care.

Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders↗
PubMed1979

The evaluation of analgesic drugs. The case for experimental methods.

The current status of the experimental, as opposed to the traditional clinical, approach to the evaluation of analgesic activity is examined in the light of recent observations made with the submaximal tourniquet and electric shock methods of inducing experimental pain. The results obtained indicate that the submaximal effort tourniquet technique shows an acceptable degree of sensitivity in detecting the analgesic activity of both narcotic and non-narcotic agents which is not the case with the electric shock method. These differences in sensitivities between two different experimental methods are examined and some possible explanations offered for the findings. It is concluded that some modern experimental methods may now provide a valid and desirable alternative to the clinical approach for the evaluation of analgesic agents.

Analgesics↗