Erschienen in:
18.07.2022 | Editorials
The other opioid crisis: the situation in low-resource countries
verfasst von:
Clare Roques, PhD, MB BChir, Cantab, FRCA, FFPMRCA, Wayne Morriss, MBChB, FANZCA, Carolina Haylock-Loor, MD
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 8/2022
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Excerpt
Numerous articles in this Special Issue describe an opioid crisis where there is too much opioid, especially in Canada, the USA, and some other high-income countries. Nevertheless, for the majority of the world’s population—people living in low-resource countries—the problem is not enough opioid. In most of the world’s countries, patients are living and dying in severe pain because of limited or no availability of opioid medications. …