The Inadequate Treatment of Pain: Collateral Damage from the War on Drugs

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.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  PLoS Medicine

• Publication date

  2012-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001153PMID 22253576PMCID 3254657
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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