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DEA Warns Oregon Doctors over Assisted Suicides

HeadlineNov 12, 1997

Doctors in Oregon are being warned by the Drug Enforcement Administration that they risk losing their licenses to prescribe drugs if they help terminally ill patients kill themselves. Voters last week reaffirmed a law, which has survived all court challenges, permitting physicians to assist in suicides.

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