Objective Patients with a psychiatric disorder are eligible to request medical assistance in
dying (MAID) in a small but growing number of jurisdictions, including the Netherlands and …

Physician assisted death (PAD) for patients with a psychiatric disorder is a controversial
topic of increasing relevance, since a growing number of countries are allowing it. General …

Persons with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) make up a vulnerable group within
mental healthcare and society. Not only do they suffer from long-term, serious psychiatric …

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) has rapidly advanced in Canada in recent years
including its use within prison populations. In June 2016, the prohibition on physician …

Abstract Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) is the act of a healthcare provider ending a patient's
life, at their request, due to unbearable suffering from a grievous and incurable disease …

In Canada, the conversation to enable access to therapeutic psychedelics is under way.
With recent federal initiatives, Canadians can request access to psychedelic-assisted …

The terms we use every day to describe psychotropic drugs derive from the evolution of the
many terms used in the 1950s and 1960s (King and Voruganti, 2002). However, in the …

Dying of severe and enduring eating disorders (SEEDs) was studied using semi-structured
interviews (n= 7) and a follow-up videoconferencing focus group (n= 3) with Dutch mental …

Recent years have seen increasing reform of mental health law and debate, especially in
relation to involuntary detention and treatment, largely stimulated by the passing of the …

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) holds centrality in many debates regarding psychiatric
euthanasia. Among the strongest reasons cited by opponents of psychiatric euthanasia is …