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       Dozens of deaths show risks of injecting sedatives into people r
       estrained by police
       By: agate Date: May 4, 2024, 1:32 am
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       From Medpage Today (April 24, 2024)--"Dozens of deaths show
       risks of injecting sedatives into people restrained by police":
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       The practice of restraining people and then injecting them with
       sedatives goes back much farther than 2012, however.  In the
       1970s through a mistake I found myself in a community mental
       health center that was meant as a temporary holding center for
       people having mental problems. They were to be assessed there by
       a group of medical professionals and then sent to some more
       permanent location, often a state mental hospital.
       Sometimes a person was brought in screaming and thrashing around
       violently but being restrained by several law officers, who
       wrestled the person into a situation--one of the hospital
       beds--where the injection was given. It was a brutal process,
       and the person's consent was not sought.
       Surely there are better ways of calming a distraught person
       down.
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