@WHO @WHO_Europe @pahowho @WHOEMRO @WHOWPRO @WHOAFRO @WHOSEARO The balance of pain? "This data echoes the 2018 Lancet Commission describing lack of access to pain relief medication as ‘one of the most heinous, hidden inequities in global health’ with the richest 10% of countries possessing 90% of distributed morphine-equivalent opioids."
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Copy of tweet: 6/ The access abyss is so stark that half the world’s poor live in countries that receive only 1% of the opioid analgesics distributed globally. ⅔ of the world population has no access to pain meds. Inequality continues to increase (J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2020 Mar).
@AlanRMacLeod @MintPressNews World-class investigative journalism, Alan. Harrowing, revelatory, profound. And here’s useful, contextual clarification, relating to licit, as distinct from illicit, opioid production and distribution, globally. The American Empire and planetary pain-management? An unholy mess.
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