23 May 2016

Compulsory drug treatment bill under fire

From Nine To Noon, 9:34 am on 23 May 2016

Doctors and human rights advocates are lining up to condemn aspects of a new bill which would let doctors order patients to undergo compulsory treatment for drug an alcohol addiction. Nine to Noon speaks to the chair of the New Zealand Medical Association, Dr Stephen Child, Roger Brooking - an addiction medicine specialist and the Human Rights Commission Legal Manager Janet Anderson-Bidois