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BOSTON - Lawyers for people with mental illness and people with disabilities lined up Monday afternoon to urge a legislative committee to again reject laws that would allow court-ordered outpatient treatment programs for people with severe…
Lawyers for people with mental illness and people with disabilities lined up Monday afternoon to urge a legislative committee to again reject laws that would allow court-ordered outpatient treatment programs for people…
Hawaii residents with mental illness so severe and persistent that they do not even realize they need help may be instructed by a judge to seek outpatient treatment.
But since Hawaii Revision of the law on the treatment of…