Stigmas to access and use opioids for cancer pain management generate useless suffering

Having cancer; using opioids to treat pain; depression induced by the emotional distress of having cancer: all these represent stigmas for patients in the Middle East that can only be overcome with education. Interview with M. Silbermann, Executive Director of the Middle East Cancer Consortium (MECC).
http://www.esmo.org/Policy/Glo....bal-Opioid-Policy-In

Video produced by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)