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Category Archives: Opioid access
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
New INCB supplement on controlled medicines – a great tool for advocacy
Dr Katherine Irene Pettus, PhD, Advocacy Officer, International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, explains the background to a new report published in Vienna on 3 February 2016 to improve access to controlled medicines. The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) … Continue reading
European Association for Palliative Care and the Civil Society Forum on Drugs
The EAPC has recently been involved in discussions within the European Union (EU) in preparation for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS). Dr David Oliver, Board member of the European Association for … Continue reading
Misuse of low-quality data for drawing conclusions on opioid dependence is a health abuse
Willem Scholten, PharmD MPA, Consultant – Medicines and Controlled Substances, Willem Scholten Consultancy, Lopik, the Netherlands; Jack E. Henningfield, PhD, Vice-President, Research and Health Policy, Pinney Associates, Bethesda, Maryland, and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. … Continue reading