Doctors would be required to discuss palliative-care options, as well as other non-lethal means of easing the pain with the patient before prescribing life-ending drugs.
There is no uniform policy on prescribing life-saving medications like Suboxone, or having the anti-overdose drug Naloxone at the ready.
"We don't restrict doctors from prescribing life-saving medication for any other medical condition, so it makes no sense to limit medication-assisted therapies for those suffering from the disease of opioid addiction," Markey said.
Museveni said last week that he plans to sign the new legislation, which has alarmed rights activists because it prescribes life imprisonment for acts of "aggravated homosexuality".
For years before and after her death, I tried to absorb my mother by referring to myself as a Negress, and by living the prescribed life of an auntie man, which is what Barbadians call a faggot.
As a Negress--for that was what she called herself--my mother was powerful in her silence, and for years before and after her death, I tried to absorb my mother by referring to myself as a Negress, and by living the prescribed life of an auntie man, which is what Barbadians call a faggot.
Patients are prescribed life saving, disease modifying and symptom relieving therapies.
In 1982, another clause prescribed life imprisonment for "wilful" desecration of the Koran, the Muslim holy book.
