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ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics2020

Neither Ethical Nor Effective: The False Promise of Involuntary Commitment to Address the Overdose Crisis.

Michael S Sinha, John C Messinger, Leo Beletsky

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Article in The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael S SinhaMichael S. Sinha, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is a Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School, an Affiliated Researcher at the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, all in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. John C. Messinger, B.S., is a Medical Student at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Leo Beletsky, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where he also directs the Health in Justice Action Lab. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.
John C MessingerMichael S. Sinha, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is a Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School, an Affiliated Researcher at the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, all in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. John C. Messinger, B.S., is a Medical Student at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Leo Beletsky, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where he also directs the Health in Justice Action Lab. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.
Leo BeletskyMichael S. Sinha, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is a Research Fellow at the Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science at Harvard Medical School, an Affiliated Researcher at the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, all in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. John C. Messinger, B.S., is a Medical Student at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Leo Beletsky, J.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, where he also directs the Health in Justice Action Lab. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Drug OverdoseInvoluntary CommitmentCommitment of Persons with Psychiatric DisordersHumansMorals

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PMID33404332

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