ArticleChinese medicine2016
Acupuncture therapy for drug addiction.
Article in Chinese medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Complementary and Integrative Health Use in Binge Eating Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Mixed-Methods Study of Binge Eating Disorder Experts' Perspectives.International journal of nursing and health care research · 2024Article
- Acupuncture-related therapies for protracted opioid abstinence syndrome:A systematic review and meta-analysis.Integrative medicine research · 2023Review
- PheSom: a term frequency-based method for measuring human phenotype similarity on the basis of MeSH vocabulary.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Article
- Acupuncture ameliorates Mobile Phone Addiction with sleep disorders and restores salivary metabolites rhythm.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Role of Acupuncture in Treating a Patient with a Gambling Disorder.Medical acupuncture · 2022Article
- Antihistamine promotes electroacupuncture analgesia in healthy human subjects: A pilot study.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2022Article
- Effects of acupuncture stimulation on brain activation induced by cue-elicited alcohol craving.Neural regeneration research · 2022Article
- Understandings of acupuncture application and mechanisms.American journal of translational research · 2022Review
- Acupuncture Modulates Intracranial Self-Stimulation of the Medial Forebrain Bundle in Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Electroacupuncture prevents cocaine-induced conditioned place preference reinstatement and attenuates ΔFosB and GluR2 expression.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Role of Lateral Hypothalamus in Acupuncture Inhibition of Cocaine Psychomotor Activity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Acupuncture Alleviates Anxiety and 22-kHz Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Rats Subjected to Repeated Alcohol Administration by Modulating the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Signaling Pathway.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Traumatic Pneumothorax in a 58-Year-Old Man: A Case Report of a Rare Post-Acupuncture Adverse Event.The American journal of case reports · 2021Article
- Base on concept of traditional Chinese medicine: Experimental studies on efficacy of BIOCERAMIC Resonance to alleviate drug withdrawal symptoms.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2019Article
- Effects of Electroacupuncture on Expression of D1 Receptor (D1R), Phosphorylation of Extracellular-Regulated Protein Kinase 1/2 (p-ERK1/2), and c-Fos in the Insular Cortex of Ketamine-Addicted Rats.Medical science monitor basic research · 2019Article
- Auricular Acupuncture Associated with Reduced Waist Circumference in Overweight Women-A Randomized Controlled Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Article
- Acupuncture on the Stress-Related Drug Relapse to Seeking.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2018Review
- Acupuncture for alcohol use disorder.International journal of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology · 2018Article
- Effects of Electroacupuncture on Methamphetamine-Induced Behavioral Changes in Mice.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Acupuncture therapy has been used to treat substance abuse. This study aims to review experimental studies examining the effects of acupuncture on addiction. Research and review articles on acupuncture treatment of substance abuse published between January 2000 and September 2014 were searched using the databases ISI Web of Science Core Collection and EBSCO's MEDLINE Complete. Clinical trial studies on the efficacy of acupuncture therapy for substance abuse were classified according to substance (cocaine, opioid, nicotine, and alcohol), and their treatment protocols, assessments, and findings were examined. A total of 119 studies were identified, of which 85 research articles addressed the efficacy of acupuncture for treating addiction. There were substantial variations in study protocols, particularly regarding treatment duration, frequency of electroacupuncture, duration of stimulation, and choice of acupoints. Contradictory results, intergroup differences, variation in sample sizes, and acupuncture placebo effects made it difficult to evaluate acupuncture effectiveness in drug addiction treatment. This review also identified a lack of rigorous study design, such as control of confounding variables by incorporating sham controls, sufficient sample sizes, reliable assessments, and adequately replicated experiments.
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