Word: consented
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...Without parental consent... I am not comfortable that children will understand these risks and be able to deal with them," said Fantini, who voted against distributing condoms...
...Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is affiliated with the prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. The study gave patients L-dopa, an amino acid that stimulates dopamine -- the brain's mood-regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking...
...focus of the debate is "informed consent." How should consent documents be presented to protect the rights of the mentally ill? "People with schizophrenia have information-processing deficits. They often have trouble absorbing information," says Dr. Robert Liberman, head of UCLA's Clinical Research Center, who presides over all of the school's schizophrenia projects, including those under scrutiny at the VA in West Los Angeles. He contends that reforms that demand clear and more detailed risk information will create a chokehold of paperwork. Liberman argues that patients can be informed of risks in conversation, without resorting to intricate documents...
...Detailed consent forms are also the only way a prospective patient can weigh the risks of a number of controversial experimental methods common in schizophrenia studies, among them drug discontinuation, which takes severely mentally ill patients off medication to study their potential for psychotic relapse...
...stalking cases on college campuses are to be effectively handled, the best solution is to practice preventive action. The Cambridge order itself is part of a larger consent-order package, which requests that City Manager Robert W. Healy prepares a training program on domestic violence which administrators from all colleges and high schools in Cambridge will be required to attend. Such an order, although it may cause some grumbling, will hopefully prevent future, conflicts such as this past summer's from occurring...