This article discusses how mental health staff at a California juvenile detention center coerced young women into taking pharmaceutical drugs. Current empirical work discusses the negative effects of consuming pharmaceutical grade drugs. Some work has addressed how incarcerated individuals are forcibly sedated with these medications. We use a legal violence framework, however, to show how legal proceedings allow medical staff at our site to coerce youth into invasive therapy and eventually into consuming pharmaceutical drugs. We call this multiple stage process pharmaceutical violence. Based on 24 months of ethnographic research, we describe the three phases of pharmaceutical violence and how it negatively affects the youth in our study. Our findings shed light on research related to mental health, legal violence and the experiences of incarcerated youth.

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“就像每个人都想给你注射药丸”：加州少年拘留中心内的药物暴力和有害心理健康服务

本文讨论了加利福尼亚少年拘留中心的心理健康人员如何强迫年轻女性服用药物。当前的实证工作讨论了服用医药级药物的负面影响。一些工作已经解决了被监禁的人如何被这些药物强行镇静的问题。然而，我们使用法律暴力框架来展示法律程序如何允许我们站点的医务人员强迫青少年接受侵入性治疗并最终消费药物。我们称这种多阶段过程为药物暴力。基于 24 个月的民族志研究，我们描述了药物暴力的三个阶段以及它如何对我们研究中的青年产生负面影响。我们的研究结果阐明了与心理健康相关的研究，