Painkillers and the Third World

October 9, 2007

A shortage of opioid painkillers, and doctors who know how to use them, in poor countries:

In Africa, the report said, 20 percent of all palliative care specialists had no access to morphine or other strong opioids, and 25 percent never had weak opioids like codeine.



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1 girlvet October 9, 2007 at 8:38 am

here’s an idea – why not send them the 75% of overprescribed vicodin, percocet scripts that are prescribed every day in this country?

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