{"id":585,"date":"2007-09-10T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/09\/dying-without-relief.html"},"modified":"2007-09-10T15:48:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T15:48:55","slug":"dying-without-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/09\/dying-without-relief.html","title":{"rendered":"Dying without relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/10\/health\/10pain.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">Horrifying story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. Nor do another 1.4 million with late-stage AIDS. For other causes of lingering pain \u2014 burns, car accidents, gunshots, diabetic nerve damage, sickle-cell disease and so on \u2014 it issues no estimates but believes that millions go untreated.<br \/>\nFigures gathered by the International Narcotics Control Board, a United Nations agency, make it clear: citizens of rich nations suffer less. Six countries \u2014 the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Britain and Australia \u2014 consume 79 percent of the world\u2019s morphine, according to a 2005 estimate. The poor and middle-income countries where 80 percent of the world\u2019s people live consumed only about 6 percent.<br \/>\nSome countries imported virtually none. \u201cEven if the president gets cancer pain, he will get no analgesia,\u201d said Willem Scholten, a World Health Organization official who studies the issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the story points out this isn&#8217;t simply a problem of poverty &#8211; though that certainly matters &#8211; but of local officials afraid of giving out morphine because it will lead to addiction and drug crimes.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure that there are words for this kind of horror. It is just one of those things that really makes me want to scream. What on earth do you do about such things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrifying story: The World Health Organization estimates that 4.8 million people a year with moderate to severe cancer pain receive no appropriate treatment. 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