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Global Access to Pain Relief

A look at the difference between heroin and morphine and global attitudes to pain relief

Explaining the difference between heroin and morphine and a call by Human Rights Watch for the UN to make access to pain relief a human right in the developing world.
Also: Aborigines in Australia and their protest march against the stigma of 'proscribed areas' and restrictions on how they spend their money.
Does knitting improve memory and is it therapeutic for people with depression?
The attitude of young people in South Africa to safe-sex messages.

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