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Acupuncture as a Treatment for Substance Abuse in Pediatric Patients

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Substance Abuse

Abstract

Pharmacological, psychological, and acupuncture treatments have been used to help adolescences become a recovering addict. It is important to encourage and support substance abuse adolescences seeking treatment followed by preventing any recovering teenage addict from relapse. Acupuncture is a simply and low risk intervention that has been used as part of the treatment for withdrawal symptoms. Although the data from acupuncture clinical trials indicating there are no differences between true and sham acupuncture, it has been used in clinical setting with great success. Acupuncture, e.g., NADA auricular detoxification protocol can be easily done individually or in a group therapy session.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA

    Shu-Ming Wang M.D.

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  1. Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Louisiana State University Interim Hospital, and Ochsner Kenner Hospital, Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

    Alan David Kaye

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Nalini Vadivelu

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard D. Urman

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Wang, SM. (2015). Acupuncture as a Treatment for Substance Abuse in Pediatric Patients. In: Kaye, A., Vadivelu, N., Urman, R. (eds) Substance Abuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1951-2_27

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