Herbal formulas and acupuncture for addiction

I’m not really certain about this except that any quality references would be in Chinese, so hopefully you can read Chinese. Either way, not to glamorize the past, but addictions were nowhere near as common as they are in modern times for the most part. Even drugs like opium had more medicinal uses and then around the mid 1800’s due to influences of colonization and other forces of human nature you had the first instances of true addiction problems. So you had a growing problem around the 1850’s up to the Maoist revolution around 1949. Drugs during communism were difficult to obtain and other aspects of how closely the behavior of people was watched cut down their use.

I’m about the furthest thing from a Chinese scholar so, you can take my initial analysis with a grain of salt. But, before colonial forces I don’t believe addiction was a huge problem and then after the maoist revolution it wasn’t either. So you only have about a 100 year span where there would have been any treatment anyhow. And then you have today where standards like the NADA protocol are heavily used.