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New Jersey Is Sued Over the Forced Medication of Patients at Psychiatric Hospitals
Patient advocates filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday charging that New Jersey psychiatric hospitals routinely medicate patients against their will without a review by an outside arbiter, a practice that is banned in most other states.