Declaration of policy.

State facilities and personnel for care and treatment; encouragement of adequate provision; benefit of experience of Surgeon General and Attorney General.

Definitions.

Preliminary proceedings.

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.

Hearings.

Order of commitment for treatment to care and custody of Surgeon General; reports of Surgeon General.

Period of commitment to care and custody of Surgeon General; patient subject to posthospitalization program; release from confinement.

Release from confinement.

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.

Criminal conviction or criminal appellation from determination of being narcotic addict; criminal proceedings prohibited from using information gained in addiction inquiry.

Evidence; examining physician a competent and compellable witness; physician-patient privilege.

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.

Commitment to hospital of the Service dependent upon certification of availability of facilities or personnel for treatment.

Compensation of physicians and counsel; source of funds.

Authority of Surgeon General.

Penalties; escape or rescue from custody.

Penalties; false statements.

Outpatient services; establishment.

Repealed.