Luigi Stanco, Palliative Medicine Senior Physician at Hôpital du Valais, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Don’t worry, your eyesight is fine, you’re just looking at the global map of morphine and opioid distribution.
Of the 298·5 million metric tonnes of morphine-equivalent opioids distributed in the world each year, only 0·1 metric tonnes are distributed to low-income countries, and 50% of the global population receive less than 1% of the morphine distributed worldwide.”
Eduardo Bruera, Medical Doctor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared this post adding:
“The cancer pain opioid crisis is related to lack of availability plus barriers to prescription and dispensation where available.”
Title: The Lancet Commission on Palliative Care and Pain Relief—findings, recommendations, and future directions
Authors: Felicia M. Knaul, Afsan Bhadelia, Natalia M. Rodriguez, Hector Arreola-Ornelas, Camilla Zimmermann
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