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by GFischer
3320 days ago
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I'm pretty sure other parts of the world have chronic pain, I've seen it a lot here in South America. What we don't have is the drug culture, people look for alternative ways to mitigate the pain. A quick googling gave me this WHO paper: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/hhr0511W.pdf We found enormous unmet need for pain treatment. Fourteen countries reported no
consumption of opioid pain medicines between 2006 and 2008, meaning that there are no
medicines to treat moderate to severe pain available through legitimate medical channels in
those countries. These countries are concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa, but are also found in Asia, the
Middle East and North Africa, and Central America |
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