Writing topic for Psychopharmacology class
Let’s imagine that you are a hospitalized
psychiatric patient, either voluntarily or involuntarily committed to a
mental-health facility on the basis of a diagnosis of schizophrenia. You are
handed your daily medication that has been prescribed by a staff psychiatrist.
There has been a careful diagnosis of your mental illness and a determination
that the medication is appropriate and effective in reducing your symptoms. Can
you refuse to take it? Do you even have to give a reason for your refusal? If
you are asked to participate in a study in which a new experimental drug is
being tested against a placebo, should you be required to do so? If you signed
an informed-consent form, are you mentally competent to know what you are
agreeing to do? If you state that you are mentally competent but have been diagnosed as a schizophrenic, will your self-assessment be considered valid? If you lose your job as a result of
testing positive in a drug test, has there been a violation of your right to
“due process” as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment? [from ch15 & ch16].
Drugs, Behavior and Modern Society, 8th
Edition (or later) by Charles F. Levinthal. Publisher: Pearson.
ISBN: 9780134003108
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