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  • Title: Managing acute withdrawal syndrome on patients with heroin and morphine addiction by acupuncture therapy.
    Author: Lu PK, Lu GP, Lu DP, Lu DP, Lu WI.
    Journal: Acupunct Electrother Res; 2004; 29(3-4):187-95. PubMed ID: 15807100.
    Abstract:
    Though there are articles and case reports about using acupuncture to detoxify and to break the narcotic addiction, few articles describe in the West about using acupuncture therapy to treat the emergence of acute withdrawal symptom due to heroin, opium, or morphine. Most often the method of treatment are using the methadone or benzodiazepine and phenoziazine drugs this article describes many years of clinical experience with non-drug approach to treat the acute withdrawal symptoms with acupuncture therapy. Unlike the drug approach, which usually has side effects, there is no adverse effect with acupuncture therapy.
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