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. 2013;10(4):e1001411.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001411. Epub 2013 Apr 2.

Untreated pain, narcotics regulation, and global health ideologies

Nicholas B King  1 , Veronique Fraser
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Untreated pain, narcotics regulation, and global health ideologies

Nicholas B King et al. PLoS Med. 2013.

Abstract

Pain management is marginalized or ignored, with millions of people worldwide unnecessarily living with untreated pain. Reducing global inequalities in untreated pain requires a concerted global effort, say Veronique Fraser and colleagues, which must attend to the complexity of pain and promote multimodal, multidisciplinary pain management.

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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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