Mexico's poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Despite a Mexican government initiative to improve access to prescription opioids among palliative care patients, the country has seen only a marginal increase in dispensing levels, and inequities in dispensing have left many of the nation's poorest residents without comfort in their final days.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news