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To the Editor: Although physician-assisted suicide has been a legal option for terminally ill residents of Oregon since 1997,¹ it remains highly controversial. On November 6, 2001, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a new interpretation of the Controlled Substances Act prohibiting the use of federally controlled substances to hasten death. The state of Oregon filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government to challenge Ashcroft's decision. Because of a temporary restraining order in U.S. district court, the law remains in effect pending a hearing by mid-April.

As follow-up to previous reports,^2,3,4 we compared the number and characteristics of patients who . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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