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HOT TOPIC: STOP ASSISTED-SUICIDE OPIOID ABUSE by Wesley J. Smith (First Things)

07 Aug 2017
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 Just as suicide prevention campaigns too often fail to grapple with assisted suicide advocacy as part of our growing suicide problem, the Commission’s report fails to consider the mixed message doctors send when they make opioids available to patients for use in committing suicide: “Don’t abuse opioids, because they can kill you—unless you have a terminal illness and want them to kill you, in which case your overdose will be considered ‘death with dignity.’”

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