Doctors Weigh In on Medicating Wanda Barzee

Doctors Weigh In on Medicating Wanda Barzee


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(KSL News) If the woman accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart is forced to take anti-psychotic drugs, doctors say it will be a daily struggle.

Hospital staff would have to hold Wanda Barzee down and jab her with a needle if she fights the court-ordered medication.

Barzee says it's against her beliefs to take the drugs. But one doctor says forcing the medication isn't likely, because most patients can be talked into taking it.

As for Brian David Mitchell, the man behind the kidnapping, he's in a Provo hospital where doctors are trying to rehabilitate him without medication.

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