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'Benzos' Update Coming Soon
The March 2023 Update will examine the recent 'under-the-radar' changes by the FDA in the US. A number of 'off-licence' Benzodiazepine drugs have been secretly reclassified making the possession and importation of these important supplementary drugs a crime.
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Tom Curran Speaks Out
February 2023 marks 10 years since Exit Director, Tom Curran, & his partner, feminist university lecturer Marie Fleming, brought their ground-breaking court case in the Irish Supreme Court.
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In this case, they argued that Irish law discriminated against Marie’s ability to take her own life (lawful suicide) given she was so disabled because of her MS.
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While the Court admired Marie's courage & dignity, they referred the matter of legislative reform back to the Irish Parliament.
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One decade on & change may finally be afoot.
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Final Australian Workshops 2023
The following Workshops are confirmed.
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- Brisbane -Tuesday 7 March 2023
- Bundaberg - Saturday 11 March 2023
- Sunshine Coast - Thursday 16 March 2023
- Sydney - Saturday 22 April 2023
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Swiss Law Affirmed
A technicality has seen a Swiss doctor (Pierre Beck) relieved of legal wrong doing after helping the healthy wife of a seriously ill man to die with him.
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After much too-ing and fro-ing in the Swiss court system, the Geneva Criminal Appeal and Review Chamber has found that 'the sole fact of a physician prescribing pentobarbital to a person in good health, capable of discernment and wishing to die, does not constitute behaviour punishable by the law on narcotics.'
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The Court added that the law did not mean a doctor could freely prescribe barbiturates without incurring civil or administrative liability.
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The Court also warned 'doctors willfully violating that principle would leave themselves open to "potentially heavy disciplinary sanctions"'.
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This ruling confirms that a person does not need to be ill to be helped to die in Switzerland.
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However, the Court warning emphasises that any doctor who prescribes Nembutal (pentobarbital) to a 'patient' who is not ill, may find themselves sanctioned (or even de-registered from practice) by the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS), especially given its new guidelines.
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Read Exit's Blog on the new 2022 SAMS Practice Guidelines
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