The Noncompliant Patient in Psychiatry: The Case For and Against Covert/Surreptitious Medication
Abstract Nonadherence to treatment continues to be one of psychiatry’s greatest challenges. To improve adherence and thus improve the care of patients, clinicians and patients’ family members sometimes resort to hiding medication in food or drink, a practice referred to as covert/ surreptitious medication. The practice of covert drug administration in food and beverages is […]