For another, why not simply say that the functional role itself constitutes pain's affective phenomenology?
Although these statutes address a substantially different subject from Section 2340, they are nonetheless helpful for understanding what constitutes severe pain.
The organization has also supported physicians accused of illegally prescribing narcotics, arguing that prosecutors are imposing their views of what constitutes adequate pain treatment.
Although definitions of what constitutes "chronic" pain vary, the IASP definition of pain lasting more than 3 months is widely accepted.
In Baze, seven members of the Supreme Court (including Scalia and Thomas) voted to uphold procedures used in lethal injections in Kentucky against the claim that these processes could result in horrific pain, constituting cruel and unusual punishment.
Other major causes of revision were dislocation, infection, and pain, constituting 14.5, 8.7, and 8.3 per cent (2.2 with pain as the only cause) of the revisions, respectively (Table 4).
Turning to the matter of what constitutes severe mental pain, the memo notes that the statute prohibits torture caused by mind-altering substances, which the authors take to mean drugs.
The assessment of pain constitutes a major issue for animal welfare research.
This result confirms that a state of chronic helplessness and pain constitute a major challenge for the attachment system and family interactions.
In November 2007, the UN Committee Against Torture released a statement saying "use of Taser X26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constitutes a form of torture, and... in certain cases, it could also cause death".
