'Involuntary treatment' for severe substance use disorders: Selected suggestions to move considerations from ideological to evidence-based perspectives.

Psychiatry Res

Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada; Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Research & Graduate Studies, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, T

Published: September 2025


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