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Painkillers and the Third World

A shortage of opioid painkillers, and doctors who know how to use them, in poor countries:

In Africa, the report said, 20 percent of all palliative care specialists had no access to morphine or other strong opioids, and 25 percent never had weak opioids like codeine.

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