Acupuncture Versus Opioids for Pain Relief: An Expert Discussion

Affiliations

• ¹ Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health, Division of Extramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIM), Bethesda, MD.
• ² U.S. Air Force Acupuncture & Integrative Medical Center Joint Base Andrews, MD, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.
• ³ Helms Medical Institute, Berkeley, CA, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
• ⁴ Center for Integrative Health of the U.S. Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC.
• ⁵ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and NCCIM, Bethesda, MD.
• ⁶ Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris, Paris, France.