Acupuntura para el tratamiento de la adicción a la cocaína: un ensayo controlado aleatorizado

Arthur Margolin1, Herbert D Kleber, S Kelly Avants

  • 1Yale University School of Medicine, Substance Abuse Center, 34 Park St, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. arthur.margolin@yale.edu

JAMA
|January 12, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

La acupuntura auricular no mostró una mayor eficacia que los tratamientos de control para la adicción a la cocaína. Este estudio sugiere que la acupuntura no es un tratamiento independiente para la dependencia de la cocaína.

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