Dr. George Woods Jr., a physician specializing in neuropsychiatry, testified during a hearing in federal court to determine whether Robert Dear, 64, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, could be injected with the drugs while restrained.
Forcibly administering anti-psychotic medication to a man charged with killing three people and wounding eight others in a 2015 attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic probably will not make him well enough to stand trial and could also harm his health, a defense expert said Wednesday.
Dr. George Woods Jr., a California physician specializing in neuropsychiatry, testified during a hearing in federal court to determine whether Robert Dear, 64, who has been diagnosed with delusional disorder, could be injected with the drugs while restrained — either by handcuffs if he agrees to them or by a team of six prison guards.
While a psychiatrist and a psychologist who evaluated Dear at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Missouri, testified Tuesday that there was a substantial likelihood he would be made well enough to be able to work with his lawyers, Woods disagreed. He said research shows the drugs are less effective in treating the disorder in older patients like Dear.
He said the plan from a prison psychiatrist to medicate Dear did not take into account the complexity of Dear’s case.However, a cardiologist who works with psychiatrists to prevent patients with heart conditions from being harmed by anti-psychotic medication at Denver Health, the city’s public hospital, testified Dear’s health conditions are not very unusual, noting that about half of adults in the United States have high blood pressure. If left untreated like Dear’s, Dr.
Still, Holland said he doubted he would have been asked to consult on Dear’s case if he were a patient at his hospital.
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