Annex 2

Title:	Cancer pain relief and palliative care. Report of a WHO expert committee. Technical report series, No. 804	Cancer pain relief: With a guide to opioid availability
Author:	World Health Organization	World Health Organization
Date:	1990	1996
Language:	Available directly from WHO in: English, French, Spanish Also available in: Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Turkish.	Available directly from WHO in: English, French, Spanish Also available in: Bengali, Chinese, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portugese, Russian, Serbian, and Vietnamese.
Internet:		See: www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/publicat/cprguid.htm for Part 2 of the book (English only)
Cost:	Sw.fr. 9.-/US $7.20	Sw.fr. 17.-/US $15.30
Order No.:	1100804	1152247
Abstract:	This report considers what can and should be done to comfort patients suffering from the distressing symptoms of advanced cancer. Although methods for the relief of pain are emphasized, other physical, psychological, and spiritual needs for comfort are also included. The concept of palliative care is explained in terms of its concern with quality of life and comfort before death, emphasis on the family as the unit of care, dependence on teamwork, and relationship to curative interventions. Subsequent sections concentrate on measures for the relief of pain and other physical symptoms, the psychosocial needs of the patient and family, and the need for spiritual comfort. A section on ethics provides important statements concerning the legal and ethical distinction between killing the pain and killing the patient.	This new edition of WHO guidelines to cancer pain relief presents a simple and practical method to relieve the pain syndromes unique to cancer. After a brief explanation of the physiological and psychological causes of cancer pain, part one presents a nine-step procedure for pain assessment, including questions clinicians should ask. The most extensive section details how to select and prescribe opioid and non-opioid analgesics, drugs for neuropathic pain, and adjuvant drugs for the treatment of side effects, the enhancement of pain relief and the management of psychological disturbances. Part two describes the international system by which morphine and other opioids are made available for medical purposes. It concludes with the criteria that can be used to regulate the dispensing of opioids by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists.
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Title:	Availability of opiates for medical needs	Competent National Authorities under the International Drug Control Treaties	Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961
Author:	United Nations – International Narcotics Control Board	United Nations	United Nations
Date:	1996	1999	1972
Language:	Available directly from UN in: English, French, Spanish	English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian	English	English, French
Internet:	See: www.incb.org under ?Annual Report, 1995 Special Report? for English, French and Spanish versions (PDF format)		www.incb.org/e/ind_conv.htm	untreaty.un.org
Cost:
Order No.:	E.96.XI.6	E.99XI.p	E.77.XI.3
Abstract:	This report, based on a survey of governments in the world, shows that opioids are still widely unavailable for medical needs. INCB recommends steps that governments and health professionals should take to address this problem.
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