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Ronald Melzack's 1990 paper highlighted that addiction to morphine for pain relief is rare and primarily occurs in individuals seeking its psychological effects, emphasizing the distinction between pain patients and addicts, while today's opioid crisis is driven by factors other than clinical prescribing.