Sir: I write regarding the two articles on Community Treatment Orders by Moncrieff & Smyth and Burns (Psychiatric Bulletin, November 1999, 23, 644-646 and 647-648).
My concern is that occasionally a patient who stops his or her antipsychotic medication, against advice, remains well for some years at least.
I know of no way to predict this. Thus, some people may be forced indefinitely to take medication they do not need.
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