To the Editor: Kapur and colleagues correctly assert that the Declaration of Montréal states that “access to pain management is a fundamental human right”.1 The Declaration was proposed by International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) delegates to the International Pain Summit and was approved by the IASP Council.
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