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The Viral Lowdown: Can You Believe What She Says?

The Viral Lowdown: Say What

The Viral Lowdown: Word Is Out For New HIVers

The Viral Lowdown: Dishing Out the Denial

The Viral Lowdown: Pharma Flubs Phase IV

The Viral Lowdown: Lack of Leadership Leaves Latinos In Lethal Lurch

The Viral Lowdown: Mystery: Partially Positive

The Viral Lowdown: Prison Death Prompts Probe

The Viral Lowdown: African AIDS Under a TAC

The Viral Lowdown: All Dolled Up: Rx Abuse High Among Gay HIVers

The Viral Lowdown: If Not Now, When? If Not Us, Who?

The Viral Lowdown: News Flash: The Sky Isn't Falling!

The Viral Lowdown: HIVers in Hock to Homophobia

Tales of the (Safer Sex) City

Clean, Sober...and Medicated?

The Secret Plot to Destroy African Americans

Mailbox

The Art Of Living

Summit, Some More

Channel Surfing

Shout Out

Lights! Camera! Handcuffs?

Quick Picks

Life Is Sweet

Packing Meat, Just Barely

A Cell of One’s Own

Milestones

Doing AIDS Justice

Petal Pusher

Carry On, MP

Milk Got You?

Comfort Zone

Big Science Kicker

Herb Of The Month

Protease Progeny

It Takes Guts

Between A Recovery And A Hard Place



Most Talked About

Magic Johnson Accused of Faking HIV (41)

The POZ/DDF Ratio (blog) (30)

Guidelines Prediction: Start Treatment Earlier (blog) (16)

HIV-Positive People Living Longer Than Ever Before (14)

Bone Marrow Transplant: Potential AIDS Cure? (8)

Obama Campaign Set to Boost Domestic HIV/AIDS Funding (8)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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December 2000


Big Science Kicker

by Maria Szalavitz

Many an HIVer has struggled with cocaine addiction, and a new study offers pointed backing for one detox method used for decades: ear acupuncture. The eight-week, 82-person trial at Yale University (HIV status was not checked) found that patients on acupuncture were far more likely to stay cocaine free than those pricked at “sham” (placebo) acupuncture points or given relaxation training. Study participants got needled once a week, and also received group and individual therapy.

Despite hundreds of success stories from coke and crack addicts who had been tough to treat, previous studies found no benefit to needling. Yale’s Arthur Margolin, PhD, the new trial’s lead investigator, attributes his positive result to learning from others’ mistakes: He avoided needling at certain “sham” points that may have induced addiction-easing relaxation. “What our study adds is a positive finding under well-controlled conditions,” Margolin says. “Acupuncture does have  promise.”  


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