Pain, anxiety and insomnia - a global perspective on the relief of suffering

A comparative review by Professor Hamid GHODSE

Background: The unavailability of psychotropic and analgesic drugs for medical purposes results in suffering that goes unrelieved. Their excessive availability results in overmedication and suffering of a different kind.

Aims: To highlight the discrepancies between the demand for and supply of controlled drugs for licit purposes by different communities, and to promote their rational utilization.

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