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

Peter Bradbury
12 February 2021
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Mexico’s poor have little luck obtaining opioids intended for palliative care

If you’re poor and terminally ill in southern Mexico, there’s far less chance you’ll get the painkillers you need for palliative care than your cousins in more prosperous regions, particularly those pharmacy-rich areas along Mexico-U.S. border, say UCLA researchers and colleagues who studied opioid dispensing levels across the country.

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