South Africa

South Africa’s morphine shortage causes unspeakable agony

By Ufrieda Ho

South Africa

Purple menace – South African teens embrace codeine-fuelled DIY high

By Zano Kunene, Linda Pretorius and Joan van Dyk

South Africa

The minister and the metaphor – a patient’s guide to legal medicine imports

By Salomé Meyer and Andy Gray

South Africa

Pain management in South Africa a sore point for palliative care and medical regulations

By Elsabé Brits

Africa

Palliative care in a time of Covid-19: A patient’s quality of life and dignified death are paramount

By Desia Colgan, Nicola GunnClark and Emmanuel Kamonyo Sibomana

South Africa

Go-ahead for palliative care nurses in Zimbabwe to prescribe morphine for pain management

By Julieth Musengi and Eunice Garanganga

Africa

Trade-offs in managing tramadol abuse in Central Africa

By ISS Today

South Africa

The work of whoonga, an epidemic on the move

By Mark Hunter

Business Maverick

How American junkies fund the Taliban (and other stories from the other side of the war on terror)

By Richard Poplak

Sci-Tech

Codeine's bad rep: should it be banned?

By Andy Rice