From Addiction to Acupuncture.

 With all the talk about what being healthy means and how to be healthy, a lot of subtopics concerning health has stood out to me.  The idea of how health affects your everyday life is truly a concept that boggles my mind.  Take exercising as an example, the fact that people plan when they eat sleep and other activities around a period of time where they work out their bodies just for the simple satisfaction of feeling healthy.  It’s truly amazing how you can even develop an addiction to exercising or supplements or even food itself.  However, trading in an addiction for acupuncture is a bizarre but healthy decision.  It is said that acupuncture has a way of filling in for addictions, from alcohol and hard core drugs to thing such as cigarettes and overreacting.

                Acupuncture is an unorthodox practice for relieving stress.  Many people know that there are good kinds of stress, which allow you to perform at your best, and then there are bad strands of stress that can cause you to be overwhelmed and make it harder for you to concentrate and stretch yourself to unknown limits.  Questions I have about the subject would include:   what nerves would the needles have to come in contact with to fill the addiction, does it actually feel the same way as a drug addiction would make you feel, is it more cost efficient, would it be better off to get acupuncture than to go to rehab, and what would make more sense for an addict with an average cost of living than an addict who is a celebrity whose cost of living is higher?  Out of all these questions I think the one I would inquire about the most would be if it is better to go and get acupuncture than to go to rehab.

                I chose this question because acupuncture is a unique way of “treating” an addiction, and finding information that compares acupuncture to rehab sounds like a huge task. Since acupuncture is so unique and scientists aren’t sure on how it works, it doesn’t have a lot of in depth information out there concerning this particular question.  Of course there is the history but not much information beyond that.  This complicates my research a great deal.  Although I believe it is possible to find information that can help me develop an opinion on where I stand in all this concerning health, finding credible sources might be my greatest obstacle.

                I truly believe most of my information would come from blogs or articles written by people who have actually experienced the transition from drugs or alcohol to acupuncture.  I don’t know if that would be enough but it would be a different type of read to base a research paper off of. Facts from personal experience versus what science and results have to say about acupuncture as a whole.  I’ve never done a paper like that.  I just wonder where would be a good place to start looking? On the internet or in a book?  Should I think of a different inquiry question?   And could this be a controversial topic?