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Category Archives: Opioid access
Two crises at one time: Access to opioids for patients in palliative care in times of the US opioid crisis
Prof Dr Christoph Ostgathe, Dr Sébastien Moine, Dr Julie Ling (European Association for Palliative Care) and Prof Lukas Radbruch (International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care). The USA ‘opioid crisis’ is a well-documented public health disaster and a human tragedy, (0) with … Continue reading
Do you know how to access #palliativecare when you need it?
Continuing the Salzburg Questions series that encourages a global discussion about the key issues affecting palliative care. Today, ahead of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day tomorrow (14 October 2017), Dr Stephen Connor, Executive Director Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance … Continue reading
Project Estar ao Seu Lado: Living with total pain in Brazil
In this special post to celebrate World Hospice and Palliative Care Day tomorrow, Santiago Rodríguez Corrêa, a family physician, and Carla Mazuko, a nurse, from Project Estar ao Seu Lado, Brazil, pick up the theme of this year’s event: ‘Living … Continue reading
Living and dying in pain: It doesn’t have to happen
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world. Ahead of this year’s event on 8 October, Dr Stephen R Connor, Executive Director, Worldwide Hospice … Continue reading
Opioid overdose death epidemic sensationalised at the cost of pain patients
Willem Scholten, PharmD MPA, Consultant – Medicines and Controlled Substances, Willem Scholten Consultancy, Lopik, the Netherlands Recently, I published an article with Jack E. Henningfield on the ‘opioid overdose death epidemic’ in which we challenged the usual view of an epidemic … Continue reading
