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