{"title":"Governmental Barriers to Opioid Availability in Developing Countries","authors":"D. M. Macdonald, G. Finley","doi":"10.1300/J088v09n01_02","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Although management of cancer pain is relatively easy to accomplish in most cases, patients in many developing and developed countries are deprived access to appropriate analgesic medications due to governmental, bureaucratic, and physician barriers, such as restrictions on quantity, type, and storage of drugs. Many of these governmental and bureaucratic barriers are discussed as are steps being taken to overcome them in the different countries.","PeriodicalId":268184,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Pharmaceutical Care in Pain & Symptom Control","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J088v09n01_02","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Although management of cancer pain is relatively easy to accomplish in most cases, patients in many developing and developed countries are deprived access to appropriate analgesic medications due to governmental, bureaucratic, and physician barriers, such as restrictions on quantity, type, and storage of drugs. Many of these governmental and bureaucratic barriers are discussed as are steps being taken to overcome them in the different countries.