Lisa Blumberg: Getting Beyond Advance Medical Directives

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The Opioid Crisis the News Isn’t Talking About

…on Opioid Overdoses to US Emergency Departments (Jama Intern Med, Dec 2014)https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1918924 [5] McCarberg BH, et al., The impact of pain on quality of life and the unmet needs of pain management: results from pain sufferers and physicians participating in an Internet survey (Am J Ther 2008) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18645331 [6] Bair MJ, et al., Depression and pain comorbidity: a l…

AMICUS BRIEF OF DISABILITY RIGHTS AMICI: NOT DEAD YET, ADAPT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK, DISABILITY RIGHTS EDUCATION AND DEFENSE FUND, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING, AND THE UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION

…ed “terminal”? Why not any disabling condition? Why not a firm decision to commit suicide by any competent person? Why should the constitutional right be limited to providing only lethal medications? Why not lethal injections? If such a constitutional right exists, why should a person’s right be limited to “aid” only from doctors? What about family members, friends, or advocates? BACKGROUND Plaintiffs claim, and the District Court found, that proh…