WASHINGTON Black Chad Bettis Jersey , Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- In the wake of an opioid epidemic, acupuncturists in the United States issued a white paper on Tuesday, recommending acupuncture as a primary non-pharmacologic method for pain relief and management.


"The United States is facing a national opioid epidemic, and medical systems are in need of non-pharmacologic strategies that can be employed to decrease the public's opioid dependence," said the 21-page white paper.


Official figures showed that opioid overdoses kill 91 Americans every single day and more than half of those deaths involve prescription opioids.


Titled "Acupuncture's Role in Solving the Opioid Epidemic," the white paper said "acupuncture has emerged as a powerful Black Ian Desmond Jersey , evidence-based, safe, cost-effective, and available treatment modality suitable to meeting this need."


Organizations that contributed to this paper included the American Society of Acupuncturists, the American Alliance for Professional Acupuncture Safety, the Acupuncture Now Foundation Black Jason Motte Jersey , the American Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Association, and the American TCM Society and National Federation of TCM Organizations.


The white paper said acupuncture has been shown to be effective for treating various types of pain, with the strongest evidence emerging for back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, chronic headache Black Jorge De La Rosa Jersey , and osteoarthritis.


It said mechanisms of action for acupuncture have been extensively researched, which found the ancient Chinese practice increase the production and release of endogenous opioids in animals and humans.


"Acupuncture should be recommended as a first line treatment for pain before opiates are prescribed, and may reduce opioid use," it wrote.


"Further, acupuncture's cost-effectiveness could dramatically decrease health care expenditures, both from the standpoint of treating acute pain and through avoiding the development of opioid addiction that requires costly care Black Trevor Story Jersey , destroys quality of life, and can lead to fatal overdose."


The white paper came about a week after the U.S. National Association of Attorneys General sent a letter to America's Health Insurance Plans, asking its insurance company members to review their payment and coverage policies in order to promote alternatives to opioids such as acupuncture.


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CANBERRA Black DJ LeMahieu Jersey , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Australian students are falling behind their Asian counterparts in reading, maths and science competency, according to Andreas Schleicher, co--ordinator of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and director-general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s Directorate for Education Wednesday.


Penning a piece in The Australian newspaper ahead of appearing speaking at the Early Start Conference 2017 in Wollongong, Schleicher has said that Australia's education bosses should look to attitudes and systems in nations like China and Singapore - both nations which outpace Australia in education - to reverse the worrying trend.


"Australia used to have one of the world's leading school systems, but over the last decade learning outcomes have dropped to levels closer to the average of school systems in the industrialized world Black Greg Holland Jersey ," Schleicher wrote on Wednesday.


"The quarter of the most disadvantaged 15-year-olds in Singapore now show results similar to the average Australian student."


He said that Australia's relatively lazy attitude towards education might be to blame for the poorer results, adding that it could have hazardous long-term effects on the economy.


"And the fact that students in most Asian countries consistently believe that achievement is mainly a product of hard work, rather than inherited intelligence as many Australian students say," Schleicher said.


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BEIJING Black Jake McGee Jersey , Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will shut down 500 manufacturing companies this year, to further move its non-capital functions out of the city, Beijing's acting mayor said Wednesday in a government report.


More than 40 state-owned companies will be moved out of the city proper, Chen Jining said at the opening of the first session of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress.


Beijing plans to cap its population at 23 million by 2020 to address "big city diseases," including traffic congestion and pollution.


To meet the target, Beijing has taken measures to move non-capital functions away from the city Black Todd Helton Jersey , such as relocating wholesale markets and closing polluting factories.



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