Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes, Bills, and Regulations
- Table of Treaties and UN Documents
- A Note on Language
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Disability Equality at the Limits of Life and Law
- 1 Making Sense of Disability and Ableism
- 2 Preventing the Life of Ableism or Preventing Disabled Lives?
- 3 Screening Out or Expanding Disabled Futures?
- 4 Right to Die, Wrong to Live?
- 5 Ending the Life of Ableism or Ending Disabled Lives?
- 6 Regulating Pain or Painful Regulation?
- 7 Is the Right to Try Right?
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Bioethics And Law Books in the Series
6 - Regulating Pain or Painful Regulation?
Disability and Drug Control
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes, Bills, and Regulations
- Table of Treaties and UN Documents
- A Note on Language
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Disability Equality at the Limits of Life and Law
- 1 Making Sense of Disability and Ableism
- 2 Preventing the Life of Ableism or Preventing Disabled Lives?
- 3 Screening Out or Expanding Disabled Futures?
- 4 Right to Die, Wrong to Live?
- 5 Ending the Life of Ableism or Ending Disabled Lives?
- 6 Regulating Pain or Painful Regulation?
- 7 Is the Right to Try Right?
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Bioethics And Law Books in the Series
Summary
Chapter 6 examines the regulation of access to controlled and prohibited substances for symptomatic relief and palliative care. It argues that restrictive drug control policies, especially uniform drug prohibition, are incompatible with disability rights because they are discriminatory against disabled people in pain. The chapter concludes that permitting a wider range of controlled substances to be accessed by people with impairments, especially those eligible for assisted dying, strengthens their right to live in the world by giving them greater options to live with their conditions.
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- After Disability RightsConfronting Ableism at Life's Margins, pp. 136 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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