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OPIS Advocates at UN Human Rights Council for Access to Morphine
Millions of children and adults in low- and middle- income countries, inflicted with terminal or life-threatening illnesses and suffering from severe physical pain, are unable to access morphine, an...
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Burkina Faso Takes Major Step Forward on Palliative Care and Pain Relief with...
The national conference on pain relief and palliative care in Burkina Faso, which OPIS co-organised last week on 2-3 December with Hospice Burkina and the Ministry of Health, achieved its objectives....
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OPIS Policy Paper on Legalising Psilocybin for Cluster Headaches
OPIS has released a policy paper that calls for legalising access to psilocybin and related substances for the treatment of cluster headaches, one of the most excruciating conditions known to...
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OPIS Partnership with TheraPsil to Support Cluster Headache Patients in...
OPIS is pleased to announce that it established a partnership earlier this year with TheraPsil to support cluster headache patients in Canada in accessing psilocybin. TheraPsil is a Canadian...
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Front-Page Story in Swiss Daily 20 Minutes Mentioning OPIS
A front-page story mentioning OPIS in the widely circulated Swiss daily paper 20 Minutes on 26 August 2022 features Juan-Pablo, a patient suffering from the extremely painful neurological disorder...
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New book: The Tango of Ethics
The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering by OPIS Executive Director Jonathan Leighton is being published today. From the publisher’s website: Despite existing for...
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Essay on building a compassionate future for Israel and Palestine
A new essay by Jonathan Leighton from OPIS was published today with thoughts on how to move forward towards a peaceful future for Israel and Palestine, despite the horrific violence taking place and...
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Webinar discussion: a vision for building a compassionate future for Israel...
On 17 January 2024, OPIS hosted a webinar discussion with four visionary peace-builders from Israel and Palestine who share the conviction that peace is possible and have concrete plans for how to get...
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Health Canada provides legal access to psilocybin for first cluster headache...
On 20 June 2024, OPIS issued a press release announcing the good news that, as a result of a partnership we initiated 3 years ago with the non-profit TheraPsil, Health Canada has provided legal access...
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