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April is Alcohol Awareness Month; so to shed light on the subject of alcohol and the addicting grip it has had on so many, we would like to elucidate some Oriental medicine (OM) methods that have worked to renew hope and aid in relinquishing this substance’s hold on lives.

Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States- 17.6 million people, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence, according to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence .

That statistic is pretty overwhelming, but what’s amazing is a treatment method stumbled upon in the 1970s by Dr. H.L. Wen. Wen was experimenting with electroacupuncture for pre-operative anesthesia on patients addicted to opiates, when he reported that the electroacupuncture did more than act as anesthesia…it also dramatically decreased the patients’ withdrawal symptoms. Ever since then, acupuncture has continued to be developed as an aid for a variety of addictions, including alcohol.

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