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Quebec Psychiatrists Group Supports Bill on Forced Hospitalizations for Mentally Ill

QUÉBEC — The association of Quebec’s psychiatrists says it supports a bill that would make it easier to forcibly hospitalize someone in a mental health crisis. Existing law permits authorities to treat someone against their will only if their mental state poses a “grave and immediate danger” to themselves or others. The bill would instead allow authorities to forcibly hospitalize people whose mental state presents a “situation where there is a d…

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Quebec psychiatrists group supports bill on forced hospitalizations for mentally ill

QUÉBEC — The association of Quebec's psychiatrists says it supports a bill that would make it easier to forcibly hospitalize someone in a mental health crisis.

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