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Tough Painkiller Rules Push Some Russian Cancer Patients To Suicide

Russia has strict rules on dispensing painkillers. Family members say some cancer patients killed themselves because they could not obtain the medicine and the pain was too great. (Ikon Images/Getty Images)
Russia has strict rules on dispensing painkillers. Family members say some cancer patients killed themselves because they could not obtain the medicine and the pain was too great. (Ikon Images/Getty Images)

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