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FDA Regulation and Patient Assisted Suicides [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
There are an increasing number of Americans who believe that the marginal benefit of surviving a few extra months is not worth the cost of suffering the pain, physical and/or mental deterioration, or increased dependency they would experience during that
Weiss, David S.
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Social acknowledgement as a predictor of post-traumatic stress and complicated grief after witnessing assisted suicide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: In Switzerland, right-to-die organizations such as Exit Deutsche Schweiz offer suicide assistance to their members. However, there is limited knowledge of the impact that witnessing assisted suicide has on the post- traumatic stress severity ...
Keller, Valerie   +3 more
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is there a Right to Physician-Assisted Suicide? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
In Part I, the author explains that it is the adjudication between the conflicting claims of individual liberty, personal autonomy and self-determination versus the preservation of life as a societal value that is at the core of the issue posed by ...
Bleich, J. David
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Appraisal of Gene Expression‐Based Classifiers for Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Meta‐Regression

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial body of research examines the potential of gene‐expression‐based biomarkers for diagnosing and selecting treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, yet no clear consensus has been reached regarding the influence of controllable factors such as study design and model selection on the performance of gene‐expression‐based ...
Ali Razavi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes towards euthanasia and assisted suicide: a cross-sectional study among physicians in Estonia

open access: yesBMJ Open
Objective This study aimed to analyse the attitudes of physicians working in Estonia towards the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide, their willingness to perform these practices and the association of these factors with a range of physician ...
Aime Keis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A complex suicide by vehicle assisted ligature strangulation and wrist-cutting

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2016
Background: Complex suicide defines the type of suicide involving using more than one suicide methods to lead to death. Second method is used to escape from pain or to prevent failure of the first method. Here we present a case of unusual complex suicide
Ramazan Akçan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide

open access: yes, 2015
Assisted suicide is a highly controversial practice and illegal in most jurisdictions around the world, although the number of countries that have decriminalized it is increasing. Public debates as well as legislative proposals and court judgments are often confounded by a failure to carefully distinguish assisted suicide from other end-of-life ...
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Psychiatric Comorbidities and Treatment Modalities in Children With Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Systematic Review of Mental Health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric signs and symptoms and describe psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological interventions among children with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). PRISMA guidelines were followed, and the study was registered in PROSPERO (CRD42024588284). Studies (n = 1419) were identified across five databases.
Julia M. Morales   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Practical Contours [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This paper considers current medical and legal perspectives on patients\u27 right to assistance in dying. In highlighting the competing policy objectives that must be resolved, it examines failed legislative initiatives in Washington and California.
Dangelantonio, Anthony J.
core   +1 more source

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