%0 Journal Article
%T MIRACLES-CURSES OF PAIN MANAGEMENT: A HUMBLE PLEA FOR CONSCIENTIOUS USE OF OPIOIDS
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%D 2013
%X Pain has been recognized as global public health concern [1] and inadequate pain management has been called public health crisis [2] with over six million people annually suffering across the world due to inaccessibility to controlled medications [3]. However, aggressively overcoming inadequacies in non-acute pain management has its costs too [4]; and societies that are at infantile stages in regards to managing these pains (chronic and cancer pains) in their patient population should not compare themselves with the fore-runners in pain management only in terms of per capita consumption of medicinal morphine equivalents [5] for pain relief
%U http://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/337