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Acupuncture as an Alternative to Opioids

Pain is tricky business and years ago when we didn’t know about all of the troubling issues regarding opioids they were often prescribed to patients in pain either as an alternative to surgery or after a procedure. In recent years, medical doctors and surgeons have moved away from the use of opioids as a primary pain treatment and now often refer patients

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Opioid Addiction: What Is It and Why Is It Prevalent Today

Opioids. A word all too common to today’s society. Since the late 1990s, the number of opioid-related deaths has increased dramatically, having taken the lives of nearly 64,000 Americans each year.

The opioid epidemic is considered to be the deadliest crisis in United States history and overdoses have also become the leading cause-of-death in people under the

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