This next installment of the ON PAIN series features editorial advisory board member Michael Schatman, PhD—the director of research and network development at Boston Pain Care, an adjunct clinical assistant professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pain Research—discussing pain medicine in the midst of the opioid crisis and the rise of medical marijuana.
Considering the consistent public pressures against opioid