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Drug Availability

• Ensuring palliative medicine availability: the development of the IAHPC list of essential medicines for palliative care. De Lima L, Krakauer EL, Lorenz K, Praill D, Macdonald N, Doyle D. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2007 May;33(5):521-6. Open access. PMID: 17482041
• A Blueprint for Reforming Access to Opioid Medications
• Closing the Gap: Case Studies of Opioid Access Reform in China, India, Romania & Vietnam
• Country profiles on opioid availability
• Downloadable slide presentation on US federal regulation for prescribing controlled substances
• Guidelines for patients traveling with prescribed controlled drugs
• IAHPC Essential Medicines for Palliative Care List
  View English PDF (42 KB) View Spanish PDF (39 KB)
• IAHPC List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care
  A list of essential medicines for palliative care developed in 2007 in response to a request from the Cancer Control Program of the World Health Organization (WHO).
  • To read about the process followed to develop the IAHPC list of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care, download the PDF here (60 KB)
• INCB: International Narcotic Control Board
  The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial control organ monitoring the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions
• Library of reprinted articles, position papers, guidelines and regulations
• Norms and Standards: Quality, safety and efficacy of medicines
• Online course on increasing patient access to pain medicines around the world
• PPSG: Pain & Policy Studies Group
  Database of US state laws, regulations and other official government policies on controlled substances for the treatment of pain
• Review of Global Policy Architecture and Country Level Practice on HIV/AIDS and Drug Treatment
• SSRN: Social Science Research Network
  Network devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research
• WHO guidelines on opioid availability

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