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INTEREST OF P.L.P.

Civil No. 960343.

556 N.W.2d 657 (1996)

In the Interest of P.L.P. WAYNE P., Petitioner and Appellee, v. P.L.P., Respondent and Appellant.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

December 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeanne L. McLean Behrens, State's Attorney, Bottineau, for petitioner and appellee. Submitted on brief.

Cynthia G. Schaar-Mecklenberg (argued), Jamestown, for respondent and appellant.

MESCHKE, Justice.

P.L.P. appealed a 90-day forced-hospitalization order for treatment of her chemical dependency on prescription drugs for pain. We affirm.

P.L.P., separated from her husband pending a divorce, voluntarily entered a hospital to evaluate her medication usage for chronic migraine headaches. While there, her estranged husband filed a verified petition on September 19, 1996, that listed the 18 doctors she had seen and the many medicines she had...

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