Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain

This is very sad:

IT'S CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE, but many of the world's poor die in pain because they can't get morphine: "Narcotics incite fear: doctors fear addicting patients, and law enforcement officials fear drug crime. Often, the government elite who can afford medicine for themselves are indifferent to the sufferings of the poor."

Read the whole thing and watch this heartbreaking audio slide show about what suffering is like for the poor of the world who do not have access to morphine for medical use.