26 Tex. Admin. Code § 320.61 - Patients Admitted under Texas Statutes
(a) Psychoactive
medications will not be administered to patients admitted to a mental health
facility under the voluntary provisions of the Texas Health and Safety Code
(THSC) or detained at a mental health facility under the THSC emergency
detention or order of protective custody (OPC) provisions without informed
consent from the patient or the patient's legally authorized representative
unless the patient is in an psychiatric emergency and medication is
administered as provided in § 414.410 of this title (relating to
Psychiatric Emergencies).
(b) If an
adult under a protective custody order as provided by THSC, Chapter 574,
Subchapter B, is a ward, the guardian of the person of the ward may consent to
the administration of psychoactive medication as prescribed by the ward's
treating physician regardless of the ward's expressed preferences regarding
treatment with psychoactive medication.
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