In 1971, James Reston, a veteran journalist for the New York Times, was invited to China for an operation for acute appendicitis and was in pain in his abdomen. In the same year, Reston published a documentary report that started the acupuncture craze in the United States. A Canadian woman in her 30s, suffering from the same fibromyalgia as the goddess Kaka, had excruciating pain all over her body. Opiates are often used to relieve moderate to severe pain, but the side effects are addiction and the risk of respiratory depression. The number of opioid overdose deaths in the United States is serious each year and has been rising sharply each year, with over 42,000 deaths in 2016, for example, a 28% increase from the previous year. The Trump administration in the US is looking to acupuncture as an effective alternative to serious opioid pain medication abuse. Previously, acupuncture was thought to have a placebo effect for pain relief, but more and more studies are proving that acupunctur