Curative Health Services S8 POS Registration of securities for employees (post-effective amendment)

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

Registration No. 333-107305

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)

Minnesota		51-0467366
(State or other jurisdiction of		(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)		Identification No.)

61 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, New Hampshire 03060
(603) 888-1500

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

Michelle LeDell Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated January 18, 2002;
Frank Berning Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
Josephine Kelly Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
Michael Mascitelli Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
Ralph Luts Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
Kathleen Izzo Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
Carole J. Barry Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated October 23, 2002;
James Cantwell Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated November 11, 2002;
Pamela Plaster Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated November 20, 2002;
Cheryl Jorgenson Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated November 20, 2002;
Rebecca Klaus Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated November 20, 2002;
Renee West Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated November 20, 2002;
Paul M. Frank Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated June 9, 2003; and
Richard Amico Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement dated June 9, 2003

(Full Title of the Plans)

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. 333-107305. 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. 333-107305) (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

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)

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

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
Number		Description
24.1		Power of Attorney

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