THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF DRUG CONTROL ON PUBLIC HEALTH: THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF AVOIDABLE PAIN
2015
92 percent of the world’s supply of morphine is consumed by just 17 percent of the global population, with consumption primarily concentrated in the global north, and 75 percent of the world’s population having no access to pain relieving drugs. This has little to do with issues of cost or scarcity of supplies- and everything to do with with the prohibitive and repressive stand the world has taken on drugs. This Global Commission report explores the current crisis related to the lack of access to controlled medicines and makes concrete policy recommendations to Member States and UN agencies on ways to improve these conditions.
This report is available in English, Spanish, Russian, French and Arabic.