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Department vehemence has been directed toward eviscerating
Oregon's doctor-assisted-suicide law, approved twice by voters
in that state. That attempt, still blocked in the courts, has
implications far beyond assisted suicide, since it could subject
any physician using morphine or other drugs to relieve the pain
of cancer or other diseases in terminally ill patients to
prosecution or denial of the right to prescribe, which is
tantamount to a denial of the right to practice.  About the
Author  Peter Schrag Peter Schrag, retired editorial page editor
and columnist for the Sacramento Bee, has been writing for The
Nation for...  Also by the Author  Vouching for vouchers;
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Ashcroft says that federal Drug Enforcement Adm