Acupuncture, Alternatives To Narcotics (with a focus on injured members of the military)

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Excerpt from the movie Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare:

"Fifteen years ago we did a consensus conference at the National Institutes of Health and we asked the question, 'do we have good evidence to show that acupuncture is safe and effective for any condition?' They said, 'absolutely its been demonstrated that acupuncture is safe and effective, especially with post-operative and injury pain.' Fifteen years later, you can't walk into your average hospital today and get acupuncture after an operation. The problem is not that it doesn't work, the problem is that we haven't figured out how to get it into the system so that we can make it widely available to the population."

Acupuncture is worth a try for chronic pain (Harvard Health Blog)

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain (JAMA Internal Medicine)

Efficacy Of Acupuncture For PTSD In Military Personnel (US Army slideshow presentation)