Improving Availability of and Access to Opioids in Columbia: Description and Preliminary Results of an Action Plan for the Country
By: Marta Ximena Leon, Liliana De Lima, Sandra Florez, Marcela Torres, Marcela Daza, Lina Mendoza, Natalia Agudelo, Laura Guerra, and Karen Ryan
The World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations have designated morphine and codeine as essential analgesics for the treatment of pain;...
Improving availability of opioid pain medications: Testing the principle of balance in Latin America
By: David E. Joranson
The principle of balance began to take shape in Wisconsin in the late 1970s due in part to an intergovernmental and multidisciplinary policy...
Improving the availability and accessibility of opioids for the treatment of pain: The International Pain Policy Fellowship
By: Snezana Bosnjak, Martha A. Maurer, Karen M. Ryan, Marta X. Leon, and Gabriel Madiye
Opioid analgesics (opioids) are indispensable medicines for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. The use of chronic opioid...
Integrating palliative care in public health: The Colombian experience following an International Pain Policy Fellowship
By: Marta Leon, Sandra Florez, Liliana De Lima and Karen Ryan
Palliative care relieves suffering and improves quality of life of patients and families of malignant and nonmalignant illness.1–5 However, access to palliative care...
Pain Relievers
By: Jenny Price
Five years ago, Eva Duarte started the only palliative care hospital unit for adult cancer patients in her native Guatemala...
