What do people who have been helped through assisted treatment think about AOT?
There are a variety of viewpoints within the consumer community. Some consumers oppose assisted treatment. Others support assisted treatment. The Treatment Advocacy Center has consumers on its board and staff and in its membership, all of who support wider use of this valuable treatment mechanism. A study reported in the February 7, 1997, issue of Psychiatric News of forcibly treated, discharged psychiatric patients found that 60 percent retrospectively favored having been treated against their will.
