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How can we 'recover'
under psychiatric force?
Review of Community Treatment Orders in
Ontario
Download the government's legislated
review of CTOs. This report was released many months after
the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care completed it and
had it approved by the health Minister. Thanks are due to
psychiatric survivor activist Lucy Costa for requesting this
(public) report through the Freedom of Information Act! The
Ministry acknowledged receipt of her request on May 7 and
released the report on May 10, 2007.
This report is the result of a provincial
review process, which was mandated by "Brian's Law"
legislation when it was passed in 2000. Brian's Law was named
after a sportscaster who was shot by a person later deemed
mentally ill. Brian's Law introduced more relaxed rules around
who could be detained in a psychiatric facility, and it introduced
'Community Treatment Orders' (or 'CTOs'). CTOs are legal orders
that compel a person to take psychiatric treatments (usually
injections of major tranquilizers called 'antipychotics')
as an alternative to being locked on a psychiatric ward.
Brian's Law called for a review of the
Ministry's use of CTOs within three years, and once every
five years afterwards. The Ministry started the first review
after three years, employing Dreezer & Dreezer Inc. Some
researchers on the team had used CTOs or overseen their use
while sitting on the provincial psychiatric tribunal. A few
resigned as a result of the perception of conflict of interest.
The second legislated review has not yet begun.
Download graduate research
on psychiatric inmate experiences of CTOs by Erick Fabris,
former coordinator for QSOS. Also find related
research on the chemical management of youth in Canadian institutional
settings. For research on psychiatric drugs being used in
schools, prisons, and political prisons, please search our
'readings' page.
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