Medical morphine is cheap, effective, and in most of the world nearly impossible for dying patients to get. This People and Power film for Al Jazeera follows the gap between pain and relief across India, Ukraine, and Uganda, three countries where regulation built to fight drug trafficking ends up blocking the one drug that controls severe pain. In India, patients and doctors describe navigating licensing rules so strict that many hospitals simply stop stocking morphine rather than risk the paperwork. Ukraine's healthcare system, already strained by war, rations pain relief so tightly that terminal patients go without it in their final weeks. Uganda appears as something of a counterexample, a low-income country that has managed to expand morphine access through a national palliative care program, raising the question of what the other two are missing. Interviews with patients, caregivers, and health officials carry the film rather than narration, and the throughline is blunt: the war on drugs, aimed at traffickers, keeps landing on people who are simply trying to die without agony.