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      Untreated Pain, Narcotics Regulation, and Global Health Ideologies

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          Pain management is marginalized or ignored, with millions of people worldwide unnecessarily living with untreated pain. Reducing global inequalities in untreated pain requires a concerted global effort, say Veronique Fraser and colleagues, which must attend to the complexity of pain and promote multimodal, multidisciplinary pain management.

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          PLoS Med
          PLoS Med
          PLoS
          plosmed
          PLoS Medicine
          Public Library of Science (San Francisco, USA )
          1549-1277
          1549-1676
          April 2013
          April 2013
          2 April 2013
          : 10
          : 4
          : e1001411
          Affiliations
          [1 ]Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
          [2 ]Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
          [3 ]Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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          The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

          Contributed equally to the manuscript: NK VF. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: NK VF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: NK VF. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: NK VF. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: NK VF.

          The Essay section contains opinion pieces on topics of broad interest to a general medical audience.

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          PMEDICINE-D-12-02726
          10.1371/journal.pmed.1001411
          3614505
          23565063
          88e0f1e2-9f45-4338-b23b-d0590be4889a
          Copyright @ 2013

          This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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          No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The work was supported by a CIHR Operating Grant #115214, “Ethics, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity: Integrating Theory and Practice” though no direct funding was received or set aside for the writing of this paper. The authors were personally salaried by their institution during the period of writing (though no specific salary was set aside or given for the writing of this paper).
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          Global Health
          Public Health

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