TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Civil commitment for opioid misuse: do short-term benefits outweigh long-term harms?
JO  - Journal of medical ethics
A1  - Messinger, John C.
A1  - Ikeda, Daniel J.
A1  - Sarpatwari, Ameet
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - In response to a sharp rise in opioid-involved overdose deaths in the USA, states have deployed increasingly aggressive strategies to limit the loss of life, including civil commitment-the forcible detention of individuals whose opioid use presents a clear and convincing danger to themselves or others. While civil commitment often succeeds in providing short-term protection from overdose, emerging evidence suggests that it may be associated with long-term harms, including heightened risk of severe withdrawal, relapse and opioid-involved mortality. To better assess and mitigate these harms, states should collect more robust data on long-term health outcomes, decriminalise proceedings and stays, provide access to medications for opioid use disorder and strengthen post-release coordination of community-based treatment.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0306-6800
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-107160
ID  - ref1
ER  -