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SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
APPELLATE DIVISION
DOCKET NO. A-2733-15T2
V.S.,
Appellant,
v.
NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT
OF HUMAN SERVICES,
Respondent.
___________________________
Submitted May 2, 2017 – Decided October 25, 2017
Before Judges Messano and Suter.
On appeal from the Department of Human
Services, Division of Mental Health and
Addiction Services.
V.S., appellant pro se.
Christopher S. Porrino, Attorney General,
attorney for respondent (Melissa H. Raksa,
Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Ragner
E. Jaeger, Deputy Attorney General, on the
brief).
PER CURIAM
V.S. was admitted to Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in
September 2015. She states she is being forced to take Proxil,1
15 mg, and Cogentin, 1 mg, and has had an allergic reaction to the
medication. She filed a notice of appeal from the administrative
decision to involuntarily medicate her in February 2016. The
relief she seeks is "to be taken off the medication immediately."
The State has provided documentation regarding the procedures
followed for the involuntary administration of medication to V.S.
In addition, the State has represented that V.S. began to take the
medication voluntarily in April 2016.
A "Psychotropic Medication Informed Consent Form," dated
April 22, 2016, identifies the medication prescribed to V.S.,
including Cogentin and Prolixin. The form contains a physician's
certification and the signature of two witnesses to the fact V.S.
gave her consent to take the medication. Although V.S. did not
physically execute the consent form, there is a notation that she
agreed to take the medication and said she could not sign the form
because she could not write due to an injury. V.S. has not refuted
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Because Proxil is not a prescription drug, over the counter
medication or supplement, see https://www.mayoclinic.org/patient-
care-and-health-information; Bertram G. Katzung, Susan B. Masters,
Anthony J. Trevor, Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, (12th ed. 2012);
we assume that V.S. objected to the compelled administration of
Prolixin, the medication prescribed to her.
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that she gave her consent and has continued taking the medication
that is the subject of this appeal.
Because the issue raised is now moot, the appeal is dismissed.
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