Do national drug control laws ensure the availability of opioids for medical and scientific purposes?

Abstract Objective To determine whether national drug control laws ensure that opioid drugs are available for medical and scientific purposes, as intended by the 1972 Protocol amendment to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Methods The authors examined whether the text of a convenienc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: S Asra Husain, Marty Skemp Brown, Martha A Maurer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2014-02-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862014000200108&lng=en&tlng=en