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BEEMAN v. DEPT. OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE

No. 1353, September Term, 1994.

105 Md. App. 147 (1995)

ARLENA BEEMAN v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYGIENE.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 2, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ada E. Cherry-Mahoi, Baltimore (Andrew S. Penn, Landover, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

David R. Morgan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before BISHOP, DAVIS and HOLLANDER, JJ.

HOLLANDER, Judge.

In this appeal, we consider the extent to which a patient, involuntarily committed to a State psychiatric facility, can be forced to take neuroleptic1 and side-effect medications pursuant to Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. Art. ("HG") § 10-708 (1993). Appellant Arlene Beeman, who was involuntarily committed to the Thomas B. Finan Center (the "Finan Center") for treatment of schizo-affective disorder, refused to take certain...

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