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Civil Commitment Used to Imprison Drug Users in Massachusetts

Loaded on July 2, 2018 by Edward Lyon published in Prison Legal News July, 2018, page 38
Filed under: Drug Treatment/Rehab, Civil Commitment. Location: Massachusetts.

by Ed Lyon

While most states have laws allowing the involuntary civil commitment (ICC) of the mentally ill, some states extend such laws to addicted drug abusers. Massachusetts is the only state to specify by statute that people whose substance abuse problems “pose a serious risk of harm” …

 

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