Recognizes the importance of improving the treatment of pain, including the use of opioid analgesics and calls upon Member States to remove barriers to the medical use of such analgesics; invites the International Narcotics Control Board and the World Health Organization to examine the feasibility of a possible assistance mechanism that would facilitate the adequate treatment of pain using opioid analgesics; requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the present resolution to all Member States for their consideration and implementation.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2005, New York, 19 Jan., 4 Feb. and 1 and 31 Mar. 2005; resumed organizational session for 2005, New York, 27 and 28 Apr. and 9 June 2005; substantive session of 2005, New York, 29 June-27 July 2005; resumed substantive session of 2005, New York, 21 Oct. 2005 - E/2005/99 - p. 65-66 - (ESCOR, 2005, Suppl. no. 1).