Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain


	Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain

philos

9-10-2007 11:42 AM

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medicine, cancer, poverty

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Zainabu Sesay, at her home in Sierra Leone, receives hospice care, but no morphine is available to ease the pain of breast cancer.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/health/10pain.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin"><P> The <A title="More articles about World Health Organization" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/w/world_health_organization/index.html?inline=nyt-org">World Health Organization</A> estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage <A title="In-depth reference and news articles about AIDS/H.I.V.." href="http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/aids/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier">AIDS</A>. For other causes of lingering pain  — burns, car accidents, gunshots, diabetic nerve damage, sickle-cell disease and so on  —  it issues no estimates but believes that millions go untreated.</P><P> Figures gathered by the International Narcotics Control Board, a <A title="More articles about the United Nations." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/united_nations/index.html?inline=nyt-org">United Nations</A> agency, make it clear: citizens of rich nations suffer less. Six countries  —  the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain and Australia  —  consume 79 percent of the world’s morphine, according to a 2005 estimate. The poor and middle-income countries where 80 percent of the world’s people live consumed only about 6 percent.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BCA0E311-0390-4F6B-9E0F-91EFFA6A671D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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