Items tagged with essential medicines
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| US attack on WHO 'hindering morphine drive in poor countries' [18.09.2019] | An attack on the World Health Organization (WHO) by US politicians accusing it of being corrupted by drug companies is making it even more difficult ... |
| Illegal drug classifications are based on politics not science – report [26.06.2019] | Illegal drugs including cocaine, heroin and cannabis should be reclassified to reflect a scientific assessment of harm, according to a report by the ... |
| Struggling to compete with fentanyl, Mexico’s poppy farmers ask for legalization [04.02.2019] | Guerrero is Mexico’s third-poorest state and the center of its opium industry. If the state of 3.5 million were an independent country, it would be t ... |
| Outdated drug policies leave millions of Africans in agony [31.01.2019] | Providing palliative care without morphine is like “driving a car without fuel”, says Emmanuel Luyirika, of the Kampala-based African Palliative Care ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017 [08.10.2018] | In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of specia ... |
| There’s an opioid abuse problem unfolding in African cities and it’s not getting the attention it needs [16.03.2018] | Africa remains one of the regions least served with effective pain relief medicine and although Tramadol is not the strongest of analgesics, it is a ... |
| More than 25 million people dying in agony without morphine every year [12.10.2017] | More than 25 million people, including 2.5 million children, die in agony every year around the world, for want of morphine or other palliative care, ... |
| Edging forward [30.09.2017] | Diplomatic processes at the United Nations are notoriously slow and difficult, perhaps increasingly so in a modern world of multi-polar geopolitics a ... |
| WHO and UNDP change in leadership: What views on drug policy and harm reduction? [04.05.2017] | The UN General Assembly Special Session on drugs held in April 2016 has been organized by the international drug control entities, but has confirmed ... |
| The new opium wars [01.02.2017] | Are pharmaceutical companies based in advanced economies the right ones to soothe the developing world’s pains? The International Narcotics Control B ... |
| Ahead of a key meeting, Russia is driving global drug policy into the ground [13.04.2016] | As the first major global meeting on drug policy in two decades approaches, Russia is quietly emerging as a powerful force working to perpetuate the ... |
| The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need [24.03.2016] | Hospitals in the U.S. and Europe routinely prescribe opioids for chronic cancer pain, end-of-life palliative care and some forms of acute pain, like ... |
| Striving for system-wide coherence [11.03.2016] | In April 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) will convene its 30th Special Session (or ‘UNGASS’) – and the third to focus on the ‘w ... |
| A war on drugs? We'd be better off paying for a war on hunger [20.01.2016] | Global drug control policies, much like tax or climate change, impact heavily on many areas of development and inevitably on efforts to meet many of ... |
| New UN think-tank report: What comes after the War on Drugs? [02.11.2015] | The UN's own thinktank, the United Nations University (UNU), published a report entitled What Comes After the War on Drugs? that argues that UNGASS 2 ... |
| The Road to UNGASS 2016 [14.04.2015] | On 19th to 21st April 2016, there will be a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) held in New York, dedicated to the issue of drug ... |
| Dr. Lochan Naidoo - A frank conversation about drugs [29.03.2015] | The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr Lochan Naidoo, became a member of International Doctors for Healthier Drug Poli ... |
| How do you treat pain when most of the world's population can't get opioids? [02.03.2015] | In the United States, where doctors write more than 250 million prescriptions for painkillers a year, the frequency of abuse and overdose represents ... |
| The UK needs common sense about ketamine [17.02.2015] | Ketamine is a unique anaesthetic and analgesic that has unfortunately become a popular recreational drug. In an attempt to reduce recreational use, a ... |
| CND decision to schedule ketamine would undermine WHO treaty mandate [16.02.2015] | The 58th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2015 has been asked to consider a Chinese proposal to place ketamine – an esse ... |
| Fact Sheet on the Proposal to Discuss International Scheduling of Ketamine at the 58th CND [14.02.2015] | Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing ... |
| The International Drug Control Regime and Access to Controlled Medicines [25.12.2014] | The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that some 5.5 billion people around the globe inhabit countries with low to non-existent access to cont ... |
| IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [14.08.2014] | The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy land ... |
| Drug policy reform is breaking through at the international level [24.03.2013] | Change is in the air ... But the pace could be quickened a bit. While the international policymaking body on drugs has long been stuck in neutral, th ... |
| Is the INCB dangerous to your health? [04.03.2013] | In what has become a chilling annual exercise, the UN's drug watchdog the International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report today. The ... |
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