title: Untreated pain, narcotics regulation, and global health ideologies.
abstract: Pain management is marginalized or ignored, with millions of people worldwide unnecessarily living with untreated pain. Reducing global inequalities in untreated pain requires a concerted global effort, say Veronique Fraser and colleagues, which must attend to the complexity of pain and promote multimodal, multidisciplinary pain management.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. nicholas.king@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Nicholas B
authors.initials: NB
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Fraser
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009294:Narcotics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D059408:Pain Management
chemical_list: D009294:Narcotics
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