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The pharmaceutical industry promotes the fantasy of zero pain: take a pill and eliminate pain. But pills offer only temporary, superficial relief and often have adverse effects.
- By Joshua Pate
For every feeling we experience, there is a lot of complex biology going on underneath our skin.