Demand Access to Pain Relief

Fifty Milligrams Is Not Enough

Vlad is suffering from incurable brain cancer. Despite his chronic pain, doctors in Ukraine are only allowed to prescribe 50 mg of pain medicine. In another country, doctors would typically prescribe more than 2,000 mg for a patient like Vlad.

People with debilitating illnesses are left to die in excruciating pain as a result of restrictions on pain medicines. Health care workers must be allowed to provide patients with relief from severe pain.
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