Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@GhoshAmitav And, of course, not only does the travesty continue, but "inequality continues to increase." ?s=20
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Jun 2023
@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).