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Controlled trial of acupuncture for severe recidivist alcoholism.
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By comparison with treatment patients more control patients expressed a moderate to strong need for alcohol, and had more than twice the number of both drinking episodes and admissions to a detoxification centre.About:
This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 1989-06-24. It has received 173 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acupuncture & Randomized controlled trial.read more
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Reward deficiency syndrome: a biogenetic model for the diagnosis and treatment of impulsive, addictive, and compulsive behaviors.
Kenneth Blum,Eric R. Braverman,Jay M. Holder,Joel F. Lubar,Vincent J. Monastra,David Miller,Judith O. Lubar,Thomas J H Chen,David E. Comings +8 more
TL;DR: In order to explain the breakdown of the reward cascade due to both multiple genes and environmental stimuli (pleiotropism) and resultant aberrant behaviors, Blum united this hypodopaminergic trait under the rubric of a reward deficiency syndrome.
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Acupuncture- from Empiricism to Science: Functional Background to Acupuncture Effects in Pain and Disease
S. Andersson,T. Lundeberg +1 more
TL;DR: Experimental and clinical evidence suggest that acupuncture may affect the sympathetic system via mechanisms at the hypothalamic and brainstem levels, and that the hypothalamus beta-endorphinergic system has inhibitory effects on the vasomotorcenter, VMC.
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The essential handbook of treatment and prevention of alcohol problems
Nick Heather,Tim Stockwell +1 more
TL;DR: This book discusses treatment and recovery, prevention of alcohol-related problems, and the effects of price and taxation on the physical availability of alcohol.
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Scientific Basis of Acupuncture
TL;DR: In this chapter some of the modern scientific studies on acupuncture are outlined.
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Acupuncture for the treatment of cocaine addiction: a randomized controlled trial.
Arthur Margolin,Herbert D. Kleber,S. Kelly Avants,Janet Konefal,Frank H. Gawin,Elena Stark,James L. Sorensen,Eleanor Midkiff,Elizabeth A. Wells,T. Ron Jackson,Milton L. Bullock,Patricia D. Culliton,Sharon M. Boles,Roger D. Vaughan +13 more
TL;DR: This study does not support the use of acupuncture as a stand-alone treatment for cocaine addiction or in contexts in which patients receive only minimal concurrent psychosocial treatment and research will be needed to examine acupuncture's contribution to addiction treatment when provided in an ancillary role.
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Inpatient alcoholism treatment. Who benefits
William R. Miller,Reid K. Hester +1 more
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Validity of Self‐Report in Alcoholism Research: Results of a Veterans Administration Cooperative Study
TL;DR: The validity of self-report in alcoholism treatment research is controversial and the conditional probability that a patient is continuously abstinent for 1 year when he so claims is 65% using Bayes' theorem.
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Acupuncture Treatment of Alcoholic Recidivism: A Pilot Study
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that acupuncture may be able to interdict the cycle of alcoholic recidivism and the role of acupuncture in the treatment of alcoholism more precisely.
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