As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 7, 2006.

 

Registration No. 333-65753

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC  20549

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2
TO

 

FORM S-8

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive office)

 

Curative Health Services, Inc. Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan, as amended

(Full Title of the Plan)

 

 

Paul F. McConnell

Curative Health Services, Inc.

61 Spit Brook Road

Nashua, New Hampshire 03060

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

(603) 888-1500
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

With a Copy to:

 

Timothy S. Hearn, Esq.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1500
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402
(612) 340-2600

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Securities to be Registered		Amount to be Registered		Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share (1)		Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (1)		Amount of Registration Fee
See below (1)		N/A		N/A		N/A		N/A

 

(1)          No additional securities are to be registered.  Registration fees were paid upon filing of the original Registration Statement No. 333-65753.  Therefore, no further registration fee is required.

 

 

CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
REGISTRATION STATEMENT ON FORM S-8

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Curative Health Services, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Registration Statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-65753) (the “Registration Statement”), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), is being filed in accordance with an undertaking made by the Company in the Registration Statement to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any of the securities which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.  The Company hereby removes from registration all of the securities previously registered under the Registration Statement that remain unsold as of the date hereof.

 

Item 8.  Exhibits

 

Exhibit Number		Description
24.1		Power of Attorney

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Nashua, State of New Hampshire, on this 7^th day of June, 2006.

 

 

		CURATIVE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.
		/s/ John C. Prior
		John C. Prior
		Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and accounting officer)

 

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on June 7, 2006.

 

 

Signature		Title
*		Chief Executive Officer and Director
Paul F. McConnell		(principal executive officer)
/s/ John C. Prior		Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and
John C. Prior		Director (principal financial and accounting officer)
*		Director
Paul S. Auerbach, MD
*		Director
Daniel E. Berce
*		Director
Lawrence English
*		Chairman of the Board
Timothy I. Maudlin
*		Director
Gerard Moufflet

 

*By	/s/ John C. Prior
	John C. Prior, pro se and as
	attorney-in-fact

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit Number		Description
24.1		Power of Attorney.

 

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