- Dutch Aid Worker Kidnapped in Afghanistan
Spokesman says gunmen abducted worker, driver from their vehicle as it traveled toward Kunduz province それはクンドゥズに向かって地域を旅のスポークスマンは、彼らの車から銃撃を誘拐された労働者に、ドライバーの意見
- Absence of morphine condemns children to a life of pain
Morphine, as a narcotic, has such a bad reputation in many poor countries that doctors cannot obtain it for their patients. A new report from Human Rights Watch describes the suffering of children in pain in KenyaMorphine is an essential medicine. The World Health Organisation says so. It is on the list that every country should stock and because it has been around a long time, it's not even expensive. In developed countries, it is vital for easing the suffering of those with terminal cancer and other agonisingly painful conditions. But in too many countries of the developing world it is virtually unobtainable. Many of their governments consider it dangerous.A report today from Human Rights Watch highlights the consequences of this thinking for children in Kenya with cancer and with Aids. It gives disturbing examples of children who have endured excruciating pain. Yet morphine is even on the Kenyan government's own essential drugs list. It is there, but such is the drug's reputation from misuse by addicts that doctors cannot get hold of it to treat their patients. Only seven of the country's 250 public hospitals stock oral morphine. The report blames the government.In fact, the Kenyan government has erected legal and regulatory barriers to using morphine to treat severe pain. The Kenyan narcotics law focuses on the illegal uses of morphine and other opioids and makes illicit possession punishable by life imprisonment and a heavy fine. There are exceptions for medical use, but no detailed guidelines about lawful possession by patients and health care workers, and some doctors and nurses perceive the current legislation to prohibit morphine. Kenya is also one of the few countries worldwide to levy an import tax on morphine powder. Consequently, the medicine is unavailabl モルヒネ、多くの貧しい国で麻薬あり、このような悪い評判として医師が患者のために取得することはできません
- マリファナの使用は、医学的用途であっても、民間企業では許されないのか？
can you be (legally) fired for using (legally) prescribed marijuana?：wsj law blog要するに、一方で、法律上は医学上の目的による麻薬使用が認められているわけですが（たとえば
- Guardian Daily: Assisted suicide and the law
Earlier this month, Frances Inglis was jailed for nine years for murder after injecting her brain-damaged son Thomas, 22, with a lethal dose of heroin. Just days later, Kay Gilderdale pleaded guilty to assisting suicide but was acquitted of murdering her daughter Lynn, 31, an ME sufferer whom she'd given morphine. Legal affairs correspondent Afua Hirsch explains the difference between these two cases.Arguing for a change in the law is Debbie Purdy, a multiple sclerosis patient who successfully argued for the right to know whether her husband would be prosecuted if he accompanied her to the Swiss clinic Dignitas.Lib Dem MP Dr Evan Harris also backs the right of terminally ill patients to end their lives.Baroness Warnock is Britain's leading expert on medical ethics. She's a vocal supporter of euthanasia. Opposing a change in the law is Baroness Finlay, who chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Dying Well. She says the legalisation of assisted suicide would be dangerous and unnecessary.Also against is David Morris, who has spinal muscular atrophy and chairs Independent Living Alternatives, which promotes the right of disabled people to live independentlyThere will be more on this issue from the panel in this Sunday's ObserverJon DennisPhil MaynardAfua Hirsch
今月初め、フランシスイングリス殺人の9年間、彼女の脳の損傷を受けた息子のThomas、22、ヘロインの致死量を注射後に投獄された
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