The Constitutional Right to Refuse Antipsychotic Medications

Footnotes

• ↵* Professor Brooks is Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, 15 Washington Street, Newark, N.J. 07102. He was Visiting Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1978-1979. He is the author of Law, Psychiatry and the Mental Health System (Little, Brown, 1974 and 1980 Supplement), which was awarded the Guttmacher Award by the American Psychiatric Association in 1975.

• ↵† This article is an expanded version of a College Lecture delivered for the Staff College of the National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland, February 27, 1981. It is part of a larger work in progress, in connection with which the writer wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments of his friends and colleagues Sue Estroff; Herbert Fingarette; Sheldon Gelman; Seymour Halleck; Donald Light; David Mechanic; Mark Mills; Robert Plotkin; Stephen Rachlin; Loren Roth; Walter Reich and Jacques Quen. Some of their suggestions are incorporated herein; others will be used and developed in the more comprehensive analysis of this problem yet to be published.