[nradov]

What about patients who present a serious risk of harm to themselves and others? Should they be medicated without consent? Sometimes the only other option is indefinite confinement in a mental facility.

[blame_lewis]

Asterisk. I meant in the long term. In the very short term, hospital can be an option, but asylums no longer exist in first-world nations.

Our treatment systems simply do not currently have an effective long-term way of handling patients that outright refuse to take their medication.

In practical terms, these days most people in that situation end up in prisons instead.