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A chemical restraint is a form of medical restraint in which a drug is used to restrict the freedom or movement of a patient or in some cases to sedate the patient. Chemical restraint is used in emergency, acute, and psychiatric settings to perform surgery or to reduce agitation, aggression or violent behaviours; [a] it may also be used to control or punish unruly behaviours. [2]
The Commission, holds a formal plenary to discuss a spectrum of issues that involve Prisoners of War and Missing in Action such as; archival research, reported gravesites, loss incident reports, shoot-downs, archival reports, Soviet Bloc nation intelligence and reports, information passed on to the Commission and to establish the direction the ...
In the U.S. in the late 2010s and into the 2020s (so far), restraint of psychiatric patients and/or people with mental disorders (for all purpose other than very temporarily if another person would be in danger) has come under heavy fire from many professionals (such as those in the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective) and human rights groups (such as Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint ...
Chemical restraint, such as forcible injection with the antipsychotic haloperidol or benzodiazepine sedative midazolam, may be used to sedate a patient who is agitated. [ 36 ] : 624 [ 37 ] : 152 In some countries, antipsychotics and sedatives can be forcibly administered to those who are committed , using intramuscular depot injection . [ 38 ]
On 13 October Ban announced that veteran UN diplomat Sigrid Kaag would head the Joint Mission. [2] By 23 June 2014, Syria's declared stockpile of chemical weapons had been shipped out of the country or destroyed. The Joint Mission officially ended on 30 September 2014. [3] Its successor, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria, was launched in ...
A DEQ survey after the EPA announced the new forever chemical standards found that 300 water systems across the state have elevated PFAS levels, impacting 42 municipal water systems that serve ...
The resolution established a Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), a partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) . The Security Council renewed the JIM's mandate in resolution 2319 (2016) on 17 November 2016, for a further period of one year.
The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), officially the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction, is an arms control treaty administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental organization based in The Hague, Netherlands.