LA backs Cal. laws to mandate mental health treatment, violating Mental Health Rights?

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2. I think the equivalence is more like being forced into treatment for TB or

an STD. Historically both have been done in various places around the US in the interest of public health and safety.

Getting jailed generally requires a willful violation of the law. I don't thing anyone working in a mental health field would see acquiring a mental illness as a willful act. I'm not sure if committing a crime to access prison healthcare is actually a common practice.

An ethical issue is whether every person has a right to refuse psychological treatment.

Pubic fear of the mentally ill is quite elevated after the Tucson, Aurora CO, and Newtown killings and sentiment is running high for government to provide protection from persons with mental illness.

It's generally accepted that a person with a mental ill has the right to refuse "shock" treatments, be it electro-shock, insulin-shock etc, as well refusal of hallucinogens or and other psychoactive drugs.

Should a state be able to mandate any of those extreme treatments as well?