jeff mcdermott

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Introduction Pain serves a critical role in alerting one to danger (Raja et al., 2020). However, despite this essential role, pathological forms of pain have resulted in an out-of-control clinical crisis. After decades of research and development, few substantial changes have been made to how pain is treated.