RT Book
T1 Human rights and drug control: access to controlled essential medicines in resource-constrained countries
T2 School of Human Rights Research series
JF School of Human Rights Research series
A1 Gispen, Marie Elske
LA English
PP Cambridge Antwerp Portland
PB Intersentia
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/879890509
AB "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
AB 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
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 331-345
CN JC571
SN 1780684541
SN 9781780684543
K1 Human Rights
K1 Drugs : Law and legislation
K1 Narcotic laws
K1 Drug control
K1 Hochschulschrift
K1 Drogenabhängigkeit : Drogenkonsum : Kontrolle : Regulierung : Menschenrecht