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May 1984 Issue [Readings]

Free Will and the Bomb

From Medical World News, February 13.

A public meeting called by the doctors of Congresbury, England (a village near Bristol), has resulted in a vote that lethal doses of morphine should be made available to residents in the event of a nuclear war.

About 100 of the 4,000 villagers recently heard a lecture on the biological effects of nuclear war given by their general practitioner, Dr. Richard Lawson. They then voted 62 to 16 that their doctors should prescribe—on demand—an unstated but lethal dose of morphine tablets with an antiemetic. The prescriptions would be filled by the local pharmacist…

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