VA is using acupuncture to curb the use of opioid painkillers

Doctors at Baltimore’s VA Medicare Center has started offering a version of acupuncture to treat some veterans’ chronic pain. The willingness to try alternative methods of treating pain reflects the VA’s pressing need to reduce the use of addictive opioids for thousands of men and women. Read article here…

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