The inadequate treatment of pain: collateral damage from the war on drugs.
expert_opinion · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22253576.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001153 and PMC identifier 3254657.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
Jason Nickerson and Amir Attaran examine the vast inequities in medical pain relief around the world and argue that the global control of licit narcotics be shifted from the International Narcotic Control Board to WHO.
Medical subject headings
- Analgesics
- Drug and Narcotic Control
- Legislation, Drug
- Narcotics
- Pain