Tag: overdose

Drunk homeless man covered his face with his hands and sits on the stairs in the underpass, black and white photo.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 12, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
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, Executive Order, feces, harm reduction, HIV, human dignity, medicine, mental illness, overdose, personal autonomy, San Francisco, The New England Journal of Medicine, Trump Administration}

“Harm Reduction” Harms the Homeless

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 12, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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San Francisco was allowing harm reducers to give away “starter kits” to people so they could begin injecting drugs! Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, bioethics, choking, death, Department of Health and Human Services, doctors, kidney, New York Times, organ-harvesting, overdose, patients}

Organ-Procurement Goofs Threaten Trust

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 4, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The “dead donor rule” is the cement that binds the public’s trust in organ transplant medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, butterfly, CDC, death certificate, Death with Dignity, disease, doctors, medical aid in dying, overdose, statistics, suicide, United States}

CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 14, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto}

Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 31, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, American Medical Association, assisted suicide, death certificate, democracy, doctors, drugs, euphemism, euthanasia, families, illness, law, lethal injection, lying, medicine, mercy killing, Minnesota, overdose, patients}

Forced to Lie About Assisted Suicide

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 31, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine

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In its advocacy memes, the assisted-suicide movement often lies, prevaricates, spins, word engineers, and obfuscates. Read More ›