<span itemprop="author">Richard A. Lawhern, PhD and Stephen E. Nadeau, MD

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Pain medicine realities: beyond the opioid crisis

In 1990, Ronald Melzack published a paper in Scientific American titled “The Tragedy of Needless Pain.” Many would regard Melzack as the “father” of pain science and the treatment of pain. In that paper, he described the science…