The Galveston County Daily News, January 23, 2019
In this week’s column, Victor Sierpina writes about the growing opioid addiction epidemic, with 47,600 deaths involving opioids in the U.S. in 2017. According to Sierpina, the use of auricular acupuncture for substance abuse is a safe, widely researched, and long-standing adjunctive treatment modality. The treatment involves application of three to five needles at specified ear points. [See the attached file for the full text of the story.]