2010 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 1. GOVERNMENT
TITLE 19. HEALTH
334. Mental Health, Mental Illness, Drug Addiction, and Alcoholism
§334-129 Failure to comply with outpatient treatment.
[§334-129] Failure to comply with outpatient treatment. (a) An outpatient treatment psychiatrist may prescribe or administer to the subject of the order reasonable and appropriate medication, if specifically authorized by the court order, and treatment which is consistent with accepted medical standards and the family court order.
(b) No subject of the order shall be physically forced to take medication or forcibly detained for treatment under a family court order for involuntary outpatient treatment.
(c) The outpatient treatment psychiatrist or psychiatrist s designee shall make all reasonable efforts to solicit the subject s compliance with the prescribed treatment. If the subject fails or refuses to comply after the efforts to solicit compliance, the outpatient treatment psychiatrist shall so notify the court and may submit a petition under part IV for the involuntary hospitalization of the subject, provided that the refusal of treatment shall not constitute evidence toward any of the criteria for involuntary hospitalization. [L 1984, c 251, pt of §1]
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