Our review highlights how legal, regulatory and
socio-political actions intended to enable availability of
unintentionally limit availability and practical
access to opioids in Asia @whpca@IAHPC#opioids#pain@PalliativeMed_j
We demonstrate how barriers at (inter)national and sub-national levels interact to limit availability, accessibility and potential for appropriate prescribing, resulting in inadequate supply/consumption and avoidable patient suffering @IDPCnet@UNHumanRights#avoidablesuffering
Inadequate consumption at sub-national levels due to identified barriers, provides data to inform estimates of future requirements for opioids at national level, for submission to international level @INCB_OPIOIDS@INCB_President