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Medical Aid-in-Dying

Subjects
Health Care & Health Insurance
Public Health
Published
01/10/2017

This memorandum provides an overview of Colorado’s Medical Aid-in-Dying law, which legalized the practice of prescribing medical aid-in-dying medication to eligible terminally ill patients in Colorado.

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