{"id":7800,"date":"2017-02-25T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7800"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T06:09:26","slug":"american-psychiatric-association-position-on-medical-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7800","title":{"rendered":"American Psychiatric Association Position on Medical Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">\u00a0Mark S. Komrad, MD<\/p>\n<p>Early in December 2016, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees passed an historic Position Statement that originated in the Assembly and was unanimously supported by the APA Ethics Committee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The APA, in concert with the American Medical Association&#8217;s position on Medical Euthanasia, holds that a psychiatrist should not prescribe or administer any intervention to a non-terminally ill person for the purpose of causing death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This position is now one of the strongest of any medical organization in the world regarding the practice of physician-assisted suicide by prescription medication or euthanasia by lethal injection (PAS\/E) for those with non- terminal conditions. This is not just a theoretical possibility that might occur along a slippery slope following legalization of PAS\/E for terminal illnesses. People with non-terminal illnesses have been legally euthanized at their own request in several countries for nearly 15 years. This has included certain eligible patients who have only psychiatric disorders. . .\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychiatrictimes.com\/suicide\/apa-position-medical-euthanasia\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mark S. Komrad, MD Early in December 2016, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees passed an historic Position Statement that originated in the Assembly and was unanimously supported by the APA Ethics Committee: The APA, in concert with the American Medical Association&#8217;s position on Medical Euthanasia, holds that a psychiatrist should not prescribe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;American Psychiatric Association Position on Medical Euthanasia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,33,508,162,9,28],"tags":[2958,2959,2439],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-codes-of-ethics","category-ethical-commentary","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-usa","tag-american-psychiatric-association","tag-mark-s-komrad","tag-mental-illness"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>American Psychiatric Association Position on Medical Euthanasia - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7800\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"American Psychiatric Association Position on Medical Euthanasia - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Mark S. 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