Outdated drug policies leave millions of Africans in agony
The war on drugs has hurt patients who need painkillers

ANNA HAS just hit puberty and she can barely move. She has late-stage cancer and a tumour protrudes from her neck. As a nurse walks in, Anna (not her real name) slowly covers her face with a veil. She is dying in agony in Dantec, one of Senegal’s main hospitals. But the doctors don’t have enough morphine to give her.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Of puritans and pain”
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February 2nd 2019
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