The need to exercise caution in accepting addiction as a reason for performing euthanasia.
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DOI: 10.1111/add.14025
Abstract: The recent practice in Belgium and the Netherlands of accepting addiction as a reason for performing euthanasia raises important issues for the field of addiction and the practice of euthanasia. In this paper we outline… read more here.
Keywords: addiction; reason performing; accepting addiction; addiction reason ... See more keywords
Reasons for ambivalence about accepting addiction as a reason for performing euthanasia.
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DOI: 10.1111/add.14246
Abstract: We accept that euthanasia may be a considered decision made by people with terminal and progressive illnesses. We would not proscribe addiction as a reason for performing euthanasia, but we are uneasy that physicians may… read more here.
Keywords: addiction reason; reason performing; performing euthanasia; euthanasia ... See more keywords