There are very few circumstances in which anybody can forcibly medicate you. Basically, they can only do it if you are either an inpatient in a psychiatric hospital or an emergency-room patient and your behaviour becomes extremely disturbed, or violent towards yourself or others.
In that case, they will usually physically restrain you, then use 'rapid tranquillisation', i.e. injecting you with a strong tranquilliser to calm you down before you can harm yourself or anyone else. It used to be very common for doctors and nurses in psychiatric hospitals to abuse this power, but these days it's only used in emergencies, where reasoning has failed.
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