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Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)
  • About OPIS
  • Projects
    • Access to Pain Relief
      • Burkina Faso Collaboration
    • Cluster Headaches
  • Team
  • Ethics
  • Donate
  • Get Involved
  • Resources
    • Coronavirus COVID-19
    • Tools for compassionate living
      • Vegan eating
    • References
    • Official OPIS docs
    • Compassion in education
    • Other organisations
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Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)

Category: News

23/05/201905/03/2020News

New book ”Seres que sienten” (“Sentient beings”) by OPIS Associate Manu Herrán

23 May 2019 OPIS Associate Manu Herrán has just published a new book about sentience titled ”Seres que sienten” (“Sentient beings”) in which […]

21/03/201905/03/2020News

Interview on Swiss public radio about access to morphine

21 March 2019 Reportage in French on Swiss public radio on the problem of access to morphine, including an interview with Jonathan […]

10/12/201805/03/2020News

OPIS featured in New Humanist article “The other opioid crisis”

10 December 2018 OPIS features in a new article by Niki Seth-Smith titled “The other opioid crisis”  and appearing in today’s edition of New […]

30/09/201805/03/2020News

OPIS collaboration with Hospice Burkina to promote access to morphine and palliative care in Burkina Faso

30 September 2018 Jonathan Leighton, Executive Director of OPIS, met at the end of September 2018 in Belgium with Dr. Martin Lankoande, an […]

16/08/201805/03/2020News

Interview with Manu Herrán about US opioid crisis in Spanish news network La Sexta

16 August 2018 OPIS associate Manu Herrán was interviewed by the Spanish news network “La Sexta” about the opioid crisis in the […]

14/03/201805/03/2020News

OPIS advocates at UN Human Rights Council for access to morphine

14 March 2018 Millions of children and adults in low- and middle- income countries, inflicted with terminal or life-threatening illnesses and suffering […]

28/06/201605/03/2020News

Announcement of OPIS’s founding on Swiss radio

28 June 2016  Announcement of OPIS’s founding on Swiss radio station LFM (in French):

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Site banner photo of poppy field by wazimu0 used under CC BY license; site banner photo of light on horizon by Angie Chung used under CC BY-SA license; 'chef de village' from Burkina Faso by unbettina used  under CC BY-SA license; photo of sculpture "Pain, Plate 4" by Thomas Hawk used under CC BY-NC license; drawings of chicken and human in cages, and of suffering vs happiness, by Iskra Karadzhova from animation in short film "The Battle for Compassion"; child's face by Sheena876 used under CC BY-SA license; woman's face in black & white by Mark Sebastian used under CC BY-SA license; photos of pigs on factory farms by Timo Stammberger used with permission

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