While headlines claim there's medical crisis in Gaza, one prescription medication is widely available in the strip. The Guardian writes:
Thousands of young men in Gaza are becoming addicted to a prescription painkiller used to alleviate the stress of living in the besieged Palestinian territory. Students, labourers and even professionals are buying large quantities of tramadol, a synthetic opioid painkiller similar to morphine, although milder, on the black market . . .
The drug is so widely available that one tablet costs as little as one shekel (17p), much cheaper than via the internet.
Does anyone else appreciate the irony?
UPDATE Dec. 15: Mere Rhetoric (via Solomonia) is furious.
