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Letters: Will we ever see real action on chronic pain and drug deaths?

Letters: Will we ever see real action on chronic pain and drug deaths?

Your recent articles on the chronic pain crisis offer a devastating insight into a culture of secrecy, exclusion and failure inside Scottish public health policy.

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