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Tough Painkiller Rules Push Some Russian Cancer Patients To Suicide

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There's been a spate of suicides among cancer patients in Russia and family members say their loved ones took their own lives because of unbearable pain, the result of government rules that make it hard to get pain-killing drugs.

A new Russian law aims to make the process more humane, but patient advocates say it doesn't go far enough.

There's a support hotline for cancer patients called Project Co-operate, where volunteers offer advice and information to callers from all across Russia.

Olga Goldman, the project director, says many callers feel abandon


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