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  • Sec.  3411. Definitions.
  • Sec.  3412. Preliminary proceedings.
  • Sec.  3413. Judicial proceedings; advisement of patient: counsel, retained physician's authority, treatment program of commitment, withdrawal, duration, confinement, postconfinement, and recommitment; examination of patient: appointment of physicians, order of commitment, conduct and report of examination, and copies to patient and counsel; return of patient for further proceedings.
  • Sec.  3414. Hearings.
  • Sec.  3415. Order of commitment for treatment to care and custody of Surgeon General; reports of Surgeon General.
  • Sec.  3416. Period of commitment to care and custody of Surgeon General; patient subject to posthospitalization program; release from confinement.
  • Sec.  3417. Release from confinement.
  • Sec.  3418. Petition for inquiry into health and general condition and necessity for continuation of confinement; order for release from confinement and return to court; placing patient under posthospitalization treatment.
  • Sec.  3419. Criminal conviction or criminal appellation from determination of being narcotic addict; criminal proceedings prohibited from using information gained in addiction inquiry.
  • Sec.  3420. Evidence; examining physician a competent and compellable witness; physician-patient privilege.
  • Sec.  3421. Subchapter inapplicable to persons with criminal charge pending, on probation, or with sentence unserved; consent to commitment of such persons by authority with power over their custody.
  • Sec.  3422. Commitment to hospital of the Service dependent upon certification of availability of facilities or personnel for treatment.
  • Sec.  3423. Compensation of physicians and counsel; source of funds.
  • Sec.  3424. Authority of Surgeon General.
  • Sec.  3425. Penalties; escape or rescue from custody.
  • Sec.  3426. Penalties; false statements.
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