{"id":780,"date":"2018-07-23T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T06:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=780"},"modified":"2018-07-26T06:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:29:49","slug":"is-acupuncture-can-ease-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Is Acupuncture can Ease Addiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>When it comes to addiction, needles are usually the last thing those in recovery expect to aid with their rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, a therapeutic acupuncture program offered through Sandoval County implements needles for people attending prevention and intervention treatment programs.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Patterson, clinical supervisor and mental health specialist for Sandoval County, said he supervises the treatment of individuals who are court-ordered or have self-selected to enter the county\u2019s addiction rehabilitation program.<\/p>\n<p>According to Patterson, his office uses National Acupuncture Detoxification Association protocols as guidelines of proven methods that can aid with addiction treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis protocol was developed in the early \u201980s, specifically with individuals that were trying to get off of heroin,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cSoon, doctors noticed a really significant decrease in the use of methadone and the decrease in the re-use of heroin and decrease in relapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrobserver.com\/news\/features\/article_6a96b11e-8e89-11e8-9efe-f3d4f22514c0.html\">rrobserver.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to addiction, needles are usually the last thing those in recovery expect to aid with their rehabilitation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acupuncture","category-articles","tag-acupuncture","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}