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Below you can see all upcoming meetings or relevant agenda
items. All items will be moved to the Past Meetings section of the website one
day after the date they are scheduled for. To sign up for future meetings, please complete this form and follow the email directions.
All content of the presentation descriptions on this page, and all content of the presentations themselves, are the responsibility of the presenters themselves and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Program in Psychiatry & the Law or its participants.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Presenter: Joyce Baker, MD, MA
Title: Bridgewater Patient
Details: A discussion of the use of Clozaril and the psychiatric and forensic consequences of a patient at Bridgewater being taken off this medication without orders for the use of any other medication by a psychiatrist leaving for an extended vacation.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Presenter: Ekaterina Pivovarova Ph.D.
Title: Implementation of all FDA-approved Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Massachusetts Jails: Impact on Mental Health Services and Diversion
Details: In 2018, Massachusetts enacted a legislative mandate that required five county jails to provide all forms of medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) to incarcerated persons with OUD. Within four years, all MA jails were offering MOUD. This presentation will describe qualitative findings from over 100 jail staff from all 14 MA jails about the impact of this change on mental health services and diversion of substance in jail.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Last meeting of the summer
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: First meeting back
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Presenter: Anne Speckhard Ph.D
Title: Ethics in Government Mandated Deradicalization and Psychological Treatment for a Released Terrorist
Details: Legal and clinical case discussing the ethical issues of providing government mandated treatment when it becomes clear that the treatment is under surveillance, confidentiality is breached and the clinician views the former terrorist as deradicalized but the government who has access to information the treatment team does not, views the former terrorist as still dangerous. Also, issues raised by disagreements in the treatment team about what is under psychological versus religious remit.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Presenter: Michael L. Perlin, Esq.
Title: Midnight`s Broken Toll
Background: This presentation will focus on the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act and all aspects of the criminal trial process, starting from the moment of arrest, through pre-trial motions, trials and appeals, and, in those cases involving the death penalty, conditions on death row and modes of execution. It considers all of these through the framework of therapeutic jurisprudence. This is a dramatically underconsidered topic, and is one worthy of attention on the part of all involved in the forensic mental health system.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Presenter: No meeting today
Title: No meeting today
Background: To accommodate the Boston Meeting of AAPL
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Presenter: No meeting today
Title: Day before Thanksgiving
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Presenter: No meeting today
Title: Christmas Eve
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Presenter: No meeting today
Title: New Years Eve
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Presenter: Usual Participants
Title: Regular Meeting
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