Acupuncture as opioid treatment

The World

Last year the number of fatal overdoses from opioids reached a record high when more than 49,000 people died in the US. Public health officials are grappling with ways to reduce the number of fatalities, including encouraging the use of acupuncture to treat pain. From our partners at the Pulse at WHYY, Alan Yu reports.

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