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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ilana B. Crome
Ilana B. Crome*
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Academic Director of Psychiatry, Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry Unit, Keele University Medical School (Harplands Campus), Hilton Road, Harpfields, Stoke on Trent ST4 6TH, UK. E-mail: pca03@keele.ac.uk.
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , March 2005 , pp. 157
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Of course, Dr Withecomb is correct. We should have stated that, although we prefer young people to participate in treatment (especially prescribing) with parental consent, if they are assessed as having the capacity and understanding to make decisions about treatment, they can decide about disclosure of information.

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