Addiction and autonomy: can addicted people consent to the prescription of their drug of addiction?
It is often claimed that the autonomy of heroin addicts is compromised when they are choosing between taking their drug of addiction and abstaining. This is the basis of claims that they are incompetent to give consent to be prescribed heroin. We reject these claims on a number of empirical and theo...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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