The other opioid crisis: the situation in low-resource countries

Clare Roques¹, Wayne Morriss^{2

3}, Carolina Haylock-Loor⁴

Affiliations

¹ Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Wexham Street, Slough, SL2 4HL, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Christchurch Hospital, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
³ World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, London, UK.
⁴ Unidad Intervencionista del Dolor, Departamento de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Dolor, Hospital Del Valle, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Editorial

Clare Roques et al. Can J Anaesth. 2022 Aug.

. 2022 Aug;69(8):923-929.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-022-02273-6. Epub 2022 Jul 18.

Clare Roques¹, Wayne Morriss^{2

3}, Carolina Haylock-Loor⁴

¹ Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Wexham Street, Slough, SL2 4HL, UK.
² Department of Anaesthesia, Christchurch Hospital, University of Otago, Christchurch, New Zealand.
³ World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, London, UK.
⁴ Unidad Intervencionista del Dolor, Departamento de Anestesiología, Reanimación y Dolor, Hospital Del Valle, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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