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Oct 5, 2005 · In 2001, Attorney General Ashcroft determined that Oregon physicians' use of a federally registered controlled substance to facilitate physician-assisted suicide was not a legitimate medical purpose, despite an Oregon statute which authorized such use.
Nov 6, 2001 · Ashcroft Directive. In November 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a Directive which stated that prescribing federally controlled substances to assist suicide violates the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
In November of 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft issued an interpretive ruling, known as the Ashcroft Directive, in which he stated that doctors could risk losing their Federal registration to prescribe federally controlled substances if they did so for the purpose of suicide.
Jan 17, 2006 · WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon's assisted-suicide law, declaring that the Bush administration had exceeded its authority in trying to undo the statute by punishing...
May 6, 2015 · The third significant challenge was about to unfold in Congress, where members concerned about Oregon’s new law, including then-Senator John Ashcroft, sent a letter in 1997 to the Director of the DEA, contending that the use of controlled substances to hasten a terminally ill patient’s death was not a legitimate medical practice and ...
Sep 29, 2005 · In 2001, acting pursuant to an opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft directed that prescribing medication to assist a suicide is not a “legitimate medical purpose” under the Controlled Substances Act, a federal statute enacted in 1970 to enhance federal drug enforcement power.
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Jun 8, 2022 · U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft declared in 2001 that the Act violated the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, and threatened to revoke the medical licenses of physicians who engaged in MAID. Oregon sued the Attorney General in federal district court.
