Access to Therapeutic Opioid Medications in Europe by 2011? Fifty Years from the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
Nearly 50 years after the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the importance of this statement continues to hold true and is reinforced by recent...
Achieving Balance in Federal and State Pain Policy: A Guide to Evaluation (CY 2013)
Part 2
This research was designed to help ensure that people with pain who need treatment with controlled medicines are better able to have access,...
Achieving Balance in State Pain Policy: A Progress Report Card (CY 2013)
This report focuses on the extent that drug control and medical and pharmacy practice policies contain language that can potentially enhance...
A Much-Needed Window on Opioid Diversion (Editorial)
A recent report attributed increasing opioid analgesic mortality to “aggressive” pain management.1 While there is no question that increases in adverse...
Do International Model Drug Control Laws Provide for Drug Availability?
A preliminary review of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) model drug control laws was conducted by the Pain & Policy Studies...
Do National Drug Control Laws Ensure the Availability of Opioids for Medical and Scientific Purposes?
In a report to the United Nations, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) stated: ...
Ensuring Opioid Availability: Methods and Resources
The pain and palliative care fields are encouraged to learn about government drug control policy and to engage with their governments...
Ensuring Patient Access to Essential Medicines While Minimizing Harmful Use: A Revised Who Tool to Improve National Drug Control Policy
In 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a series of 21 guidelines to assist governments in improving their national drug control...
Examining Influences on the Availability of and Access to Opioids for Pain Management and Palliative Care
A recent essay by King and Fraser, published in the April 2013 issue of PLOS Medicine, highlighted the important global health problem...
Improving the Availability and Accessibility of Opioids for the Treatment of Pain: The International Pain Policy Fellowship
Opioid analgesics (opioids) are indispensable medicines for the treatment of moderate to severe pain. The use of chronic opioid therapy...
Improving Availability of Opioid Pain Medications: Testing the Principle of Balance in Latin America
The principle of balance began to take shape in Wisconsin in the late 1970s due in part to an intergovernmental and multidisciplinary policy...
Improving Global Opioid Availability for Pain & Palliative Care: A Guide to a Pilot Evaluation of National Policy
The purpose of this report, entitled “Improving Global Opioid Availability for Pain & Palliative Care: A Guide to a Pilot Evaluation...
Letter to the Editor: Improving Opioid Availability
We would like to update readers of the Indian Journal of Palliative Care about methods that have been developed for improving availability...
Opioid Policy, Availability and Access in Developing and Non-industrialized Countries
More than two decades ago, an expert committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that most pain due to cancer...
The Pain and Policy Studies Group International Program
The purpose and activities of the Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) at the University of Wisconsin are discussed, especially in its role...
Using a Morphine Equivalence Metric to Quantify Opioid Consumption: Examining the Capacity to Provide Effective Treatment of Debilitating Pain at the Global, Regional and Country Levels
Pain management is a critical component of palliative care, but inadequately-treated pain remains a global public health problem and is especially...
Wanted: A Public Health Approach to Prescription Opioid Abuse and Diversion (Editorial)
In this issue, Paulozzi, Budnitz, and Xi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe mortality data from the National Center...