75% of world population has no analgesic for severe pain

The United Nations (UN) has said that 75 percent of the world's population, about 5.5 billion people still lack or have limited access analgesics and other treatments to relieve pain, such as morphine or codeine.

This follows the recent report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) of the UN, released Tuesday, detailing how up to 92 percent of morphine consumption is concentrated in 17 percent of the world population, mainly in Western Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The report criticizes the lack of availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances with scientific and medical purposes and requires national governments "greater emphasis" when facilitate the use of these substances for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of diseases.

Instead, they are required to comply with international drug control conventions, and ensure demand reduction and drug use, after finding that in many cases there are no control measures.

In that sense, the report criticizes the law of cannabis launched in Uruguay and some US states such as Colorado and Washington, who have authorized the sale and distribution of this substance even though, as the report notes, is "incompatible "Article 4 of the 1961 Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which obliges states to limit the use of these substances for medical and scientific purposes.

On the other hand, claims that in 2014 increased by 11 percent the onset psychoactive substances, to detect 388 new, up from 348 the previous year, which also are consumed worldwide, which "illustrates the nature of the global problem drugs. "

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