Treatment of pain using opioid analgesics

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).