PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Goldstein, Robert Lloyd
TI  - The <em>Mickey Finn</em> Defense: Involuntary Intoxication and Insanity
DP  - 1992 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 27--31
VI  - 20
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/20/1/27.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/20/1/27.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1992 Mar 01; 20
AB  - The legal context of voluntary and involuntary intoxication is delineated. The author reports a case of involuntary intoxication involving scopolamine toxic psychosis or delirium, in which he testified as a psychiatric expert witness. The specific psychological and physiological symptomatology produced by scopolamine intoxication is outlined. The forensic psychiatrist should be alert to the involuntary intoxication defense in these cases and should familiarize himself with the specific toxicity of scopolamine, in view of the significant increase in the number of incidents in which it is utilized as “knockout” drops in certain jurisdictions.