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PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS : A SAMPLE SURVEY OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS ADMITTED TO TWO FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES IN HESSE.
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More than half of the detained patients surveyed in two German forensic hospitals were receiving psychotropic polypharmacy and a majority of olanzapine prescriptions exceeded licensed dosing, documenting a gap between routine forensic inpatient prescribing and the evidence supporting it in a population treated largely under compulsion.