TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gispen,Marie Elske
TI  - Human rights and drug control: access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries 
T2  - School of Human Rights Research series
SN  - 9781780684543
AV  - JC571 .G52 2017
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom,  Portland, OR : 
PB  - Intersentia, 
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Narcotic laws
KW  - Drug control
KW  - fast
KW  - pplt
KW  - Legal regime
KW  - Pharmaceuticals
KW  - Theses
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-345) and index; Access to Controlled Essential Medicines: Context, Background, Framing, and Focus -- Access to Controlled Essential Medicines and Aspects of Drug Control in Human Rights Law -- In Search of a Normative Justification -- Bridging Theory and Practice: Introduction to the Country Studies -- Country Study I : Uganda -- Country Study II : Latvia
N2  - "Globally, millions of people suffer health and socio-economic related problems due to the unavailability of controlled essential medicines, such as morphine for pain treatment, which leaves them in disabling and sometimes degrading situations. Controlled essential medicines are medicines included in the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, and whose active substance is listed under the international drug-control treaties. Their availability and accessibility therefore fall within the remit of both human rights and international drug-control law. Even though the unavailability of controlled essential medicines is generally caused by a multifaceted and complex interplay of factors, the current international drug-control framework paradoxically hinders rather than fosters the access to medicines"--Back cover
ER  -