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Quebec psychiatrists group supports bill on forced hospitalizations for mentally ill
- The Association des Psychiatrists du Québec supports a bill to ease forced hospitalization for people in mental health crises by lowering the legal threshold for intervention from 'grave and immediate danger' to a broader 'danger' criterion.
- Current law allows forced treatment only if a person poses a 'grave and immediate danger' to themselves or others.
- Claire Gamache, president of the association, said early and compassionate intervention is important because many mentally ill people are unaware of their condition and such intervention helps patients accept treatment.
- Health Minister Sonia Bélanger introduced the bill in March and aims for it to be adopted by the end of the legislative session in June.
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The College of Physicians has significant reservations about Bill 23, which seeks to ease the criteria for forced hospitalization.
·Montreal, Canada
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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.
·Toronto, Canada
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Consideration of the most sensitive bill of the session begins in the National Assembly.
·Montreal, Canada
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The Association des médecins psychiatrists du Québec (AMPQ) voted in favour of Bill 23 which aims to ease the criteria for forcibly hospitalizing a person in crisis
·Saint-Georges, Canada
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