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    ABC News‏Verified account @ABC 19 Mar 2017

    Several states considering bills to clear way for patients to formally refuse opioid prescriptions http://abcn.ws/2nAotjI pic.twitter.com/InhHuvNywb

    3:16 PM - 19 Mar 2017
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      2. irene campbelltaylor‏ @drirenect1 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        What is this? Patients have always had the right to refuse. To allow requires informed consent. Treating without is medical battery.

        1 reply 2 retweets 12 likes
      3. mel v‏ @PhotoMel328 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @drirenect1 @ABC

        did you read the article!?It says the directive goes into permanent file in case patient is incapacitated and can't so no

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      4. irene campbelltaylor‏ @drirenect1 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @PhotoMel328 @ABC

        That is a given. Any incapacitated person requires a surrogate usually next of kin. I was referring to the competent adult

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      1. Dragoneye‏ @w55unicorn 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        you can refuse any medication you want there doesn't need to be a law for that you just say NO

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      1. Mary Kelley‏ @MimsCT 19 Mar 2017
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        Seriously ? Just Say NO, patients. Ask for an alternative. Seriously.

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      1. Kyle Smit  🌹 🏳️‍🌈‏ @kylesmit2212 19 Mar 2017
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        Aren't you already allowed to refuse Opioids?

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      1. Hank Pabst‏ @HAPDADIII 19 Mar 2017
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        the patient has a choice to say no but this clears the way to enforce it a a patient directive Sad it had to Come to this

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      1. Jose Morales‏ @cholata329 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        WHAT?? I can refuse any medication I want without any stupid bill.

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      2. Evans 🇺🇸‏ @evansmama7 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        legalize marijuana federally and tax it. There would be less alcoholic's and opioid abuse.

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      1. Michele Rosier‏ @michele_rosier 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        Really you can refuse anything from your doctor ... Please we have some dum people in office....

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      1. Darth Democrat‏ @DarthDemocrat 19 Mar 2017
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        You mean by legalizing marijuana for medicinal use, right?

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      1. Hand-Basket Co-Pilot‏ @thetawake 19 Mar 2017
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        WTH!? Who in the holy cheese would accept or keep a doctor from whom they could not refuse any prescription?

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      1. Ronaldo anderson‏ @Ronaldoanders13 19 Mar 2017
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        its joke people in pain do not refuse relief get out of doctors prescriptions they know what to do

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      1. Living‏ @MakeAChoice55 19 Mar 2017
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        Formally refuse? I've always refused. One doctor told me not 2 come back, &if that's her attitude, fine with me! Chronic pain, no drugs

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      1. garrett p poindexter‏ @gppoindexter1 19 Mar 2017
        Replying to @ABC

        Then the one's that need it for the pain they have cannot get it,scewed up system in deed.c

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