What is the drug used in assisted suicide?
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If you are referring to Oregon's law, it's a lethal prescription of a drug in the barbiuates class. And it's quite a few pills (50-80) or there abouts.
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Mirtazapine, an antidepressant or mood elevator, is used to treat depression.  Although the precise mechanism of action of this class of antidepressants is not known, it is believed to increase the amount of norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain. Norepinephrine and serotonin are neurotransmitters, chemicals that nerves use to communicate with each other.
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no  I don't believe  in euthanasia (assisted  suicide  )  were there is life there is  hope  .....and  don't think  it fair  on the  person  having to  assist  ..pain management  these  days  is getting  better  what if you helped someone to die and the next day there  was a cure...and to comparing  us to the animals .. Had  dog  with arthritis  everyone thought  I was cruel  to keep him alive  he was on pain management  would you like to be  put out of your misery   for that don't think  so  ...but it could happen  ...don't think anyone  really want  to die  ...but hope I never in that situation   so  really does my opinion  count  ..
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Aaand... what drug would that be?
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My b/f quit the antidepressants and decided the bottle was the best medicine, then he commited suicide........enough said!
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Yes there is a link!  But there are studies that link it with being depressed, and those that link say it is antidepressant.
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The Catholic Church teaches and has always taught that suicide is a terrible (mortal) sin.  God created you, and God knows when it's time to call you home.  That is not for us to decide.  \n\nIn states that have legalized physician-assisted suicide, the vast majority of people who do so are depressed.  \n\nLet's love them instead.
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Lithium\nKlonopin\nAtivan\nRisperdal\nHaldol\nLamictal\nTopomax\nNeurontin\nSeroquel\nThorazine\n\nSoma\nSkelaxin\n\nIt is hard to choose.  I like the klonopin....
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i think i could report a few answers for assisted suicide, because you are suicidal and all, and you need help and a hotline.....maybe something like The Mentors, like when El Douche swallowed your cat and pissed on the crowd\n\nI'M NOT CRAZY, INSTITUTION. YOUR THE ONE THATS CRAZY! INSTITUTION! YOUR DRIVING ME CRAZY!
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mostly with the folloiwing drugs\n- anti cholinergic ,\n- anti parkinsonians,\n- analgesic\n-cimetidine\n-digoxin\n-benzodiaziapines\n-antidepressants\n -illicit substances\n and also...with drawal from alcohol
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Alcohol and antidepressants are a lethal combo.  Alcohol increases the effects of the antidepressant.  You could die, slip into a coma, or become seriously impaired for life.\n\nAsk your doctor about the safety of an occasional drink.
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The cure was "Suicide"!
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Honeybear pretty much said my answer.\n\nIf a dog is suffering, and there is no hope for recovery, people decide to put the amimal to sleep, to end its suffering.  The dog does not get a choice.\n\nIf a human is suffering, and has no hope for recovery, why can't they decide to end their own suffering?  Why do people say they should continue to suffer?\n\nPerhaps the reason people need "assisted suicide" is to be sure they do it right.  They might not take enough pills, they might miss "the right spot" with the gunn, etc, survive the attempt, and end up worse.
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i agree!!\n\nEuthanasia (Greek: ευθανασία - ευ "good", θανατος "death") refers to assisted dying. The assistance ends the life of a person or an animal, in a painless or minimally painful way. Euthanasia is most often performed in a merciful way, in order to end suffering. This article discusses euthanasia in humans; a separate article covers animal euthanasia.\n\nThis topic is often highly-charged—emotionally, politically, and morally. Terminology and laws shift over time and geographically and globally, causing a great deal of confusion.\n\nFirstly there is some debate as to whether euthanasia refers to "letting die" or "allowing to die." (See terms: informed consent, decisional capacity, surrogate decision making, Living wills, Do Not Resuscitate) In the United States and the Netherlands, "letting die" or "allowing to die" refer to areas which the state consider ethically and legally acceptable and permissible. This includes the withholding and withdrawing of medical treatment such as dialysis or feeding tubes or hydration and nutrition. The last two being things which are associated with "love and caring" in most cultures. While the concept of holding off on those two things may be counterintuitive, as a body's major organ systems try to shut down, a dying person often feels most comfortable without any fluids or food. To do otherwise is like "force feeding" a body that does not "want" or need to be fed or hydrated, and doing so may actually cause physical discomfort and suffering.\n\nIn the UK this is usually only accepted when a newly born baby is born with certain physical or mental disorders.\n\nIn most other countries removing or denying treatment would usually be seen as murder. Usually, because in a growing number of law cases over the last 20 years, the jury has sided with the defendant.\n\nNext are several summary statements defining what euthanasia can include,. These are followed by expanded definitions of each. Euthanasia (assisted dying) may employ methods that are either indirect or direct. Indirect methods of euthanasia are defined by a individual him or herself taking the final step inducing death. Direct methods are defined by the involvement of others (clinicians) who take the final step inducing death. Direct euthanasia can either be voluntary, nonvoluntary or involuntary. (See Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche for one of the first uses of the three types of euthanasia.)\n\nIndirect euthanasia involves the indirect involvement of a clinician (e.g. physician, clinical nurse practitioner, pharmacist) as an agent who participates only by providing the means for a patient to induce his/her own death. This could mean writing or filling a prescription for medications in a quantity large enough to cause death when taken by the patient. This kind of assistance is currently legal in the American state of Oregon. It became legal in 1998 as a result of the "Death with Dignity Act" which was passed in the state in 1994. In politically and emotionally loaded terms, this is frequently referred to as physician-assisted suicide.\n\nDirect euthanasia involves the direct involvement of a clinician as agent in inducing a patient’s death. (e.g. administering a lethal drug by injection.) Direct euthanasia is not currently legal anywhere in the US, but both direct and indirect euthanasia are legal in Belgium and the Netherlands.\n\nVoluntary euthanasia occurs with the fully-informed request of a decisionally-competent adult patient or that of their surrogate (proxy). (Example: Thomas Youk, with ALS was assisted by Jack Kevorkian.)\n\nA large part of the controversy surrounding euthanasia focuses upon the slippery slope argument. The fear is that indirect euthanasia and/or voluntary direct euthanasia will lead to acceptance of the nonvoluntary and involuntary types of euthanasia.\n\nNonvoluntary euthanasia
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Actually, Canada rarely deports those who attempt suicide. Canada is very considerate of "depression" and usually offers help to the person first. Yes, they are usually remanded to a psychiatric facility for treatment.
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There is a happy mix for dying patients..Brompton cocktail.\n\nIt is a mix of morphine, cocaine and alcohol.  I have been around a few terminally ill patients.  I do not know the amounts I just know of it.  There is also morphine and the patch of phentalol (I think), spelled wrong.   Here it is:  transdermal phentanol patch.  But the first one is probably what you are looking for.  \n\nMy 99 year old grandma got the morphine (sublingual) and the patch.  I don't know if it helped her but it helped me to sleep.  SHe screamed all night from either pain or fear, I will never know.\n\nI do not think heroin is a good choice for anything.
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Doctor assisted suicide allows a terminally ill patient the choice, the chance, and the control of where, when, how, and with whom they are going to die.  Often times when someone is terminally ill, they have no choice.  It's a disease that suddenly takes away their life.  DAS allows them the CHOICE and control, the one thing they may feel they've lost.  \n\nMany also feel like they've become a burden on their loved ones.  If that's the case, they'll talk it over and make the decision as a family.  Most cases when DAS is used it's a single person without family to help.  In that case they just feel like it's the best way to get control back in their life.