available to them, if acupuncture works for them to various extends, they'll take it; any known bad after effects regarding acupuncture pain killing?  Science is not in the mind of drug addicts. If legal opioids work wonder and has no negtive effect, they'll all dump acupuncture. As i said acupuncture is unreliable for most surgery anesthesia, so ML doctors had dumped surgery acupuncture anesthesia a long time ago.