“Rotting With Their Rights On”: Constitutional Theory and Clinical Reality in Drug Refusal by Psychiatric Patients

Footnotes

• ↵* Dr. Appelbaum is Resident in Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

• ↵** Dr. Gutheil is Assistant Director, Adult In-Patient Services, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School.

• Reprint requests should be sent to Dr. Appelbaum at 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115.

• The authors acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. James Hilliard, Mr. James Wrigley, and Dr. Miles Shore for their review and comments and to Mrs. T. Giarratani for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.