Pain, Addiction, and Public Health
Lynn R Webster, MDThis Substack is about clear, evidence-based writing on pain, addiction, and the public policies that affect millions of patients and the general public every day.
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I’m Lynn R. Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM, a physician, researcher, and advocate with more than four decades of experience in pain medicine, addiction science, sleep-pain interactions, and public health policy.
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