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MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
8th International Conference on
Journal of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 2 Traditional 2018
ADDICTION AND ACUPUNCTURE: FROM
PAIN TO PLEASURE
Carlo Contaldi
Italian Association of Acupuncture, Italy
In the present paper the author has analyzed the addiction features, its
main psychopathologic symptom (craving) and the pain addiction-related.
Addiction is a brain disease it is manifested by compulsive substance use
despite harmful consequence. People with addiction (severe substance use
disorder) have an intense focus on using a certain substances or addictive
behaviors (e.g. gambling). Craving is the fundamental psychopathologic
symptom of addiction, it’s a non-physiological need. It is defined as an
irrepressible, repetitive, intrusive desire with loss of control and compulsion
(implementation of a series of actions aimed at its realization). Both (craving
and addiction) are held by pain and concludes that it’s the main cause of
craving. Pain will be considered in a holistic vision; a mechanistic model of
subjective experiencewhich leads us to think that if we could find brain regions
associated with the pain-condition we could target them with therapeutic
technologies. The methodology of MRI brain-mapping seduces doctors into
thinking that there is a place where chronic or addictive pain happens. The
author searched for a relationship between the data of Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) of the energetics of living systems (ELS) and conventional
medicine; a relationship could help him in the pain-treatment of his patients.
Carlo Contaldi is graduated in Medicine then became
Specialist in Pharmacology. He did his masterclass in
Psychodiagnosis/Diagnosis Pathological Addictions.
He has done clinical and basic experimentation from
Institute of Pharmacology. He was the volunteer Doc-
tor and then as MD in psychiatric hospital. Since 1997,
he is in to addiction clinic and medical acupuncture.
He has given teachings in Pharmacology, Cosmetol-
ogy and Toxicology. His higher qualification is in En-
ergetics Acupuncture of Living System (ELS) Chinese
Traditional Medicine, Psychopharmacology and Ho-
motoxicology. He was speaker in some conferences
in the field of Addiction, Mesotherapy, Acupuncture
and extracellular matrix. His interests include: clinical
audit - root cause analysis. He is the supporter of the
humanization of medicine.
BIOGRAPHY
Carlo Contaldi, Arch Gen Intern Med 2018, Volume 2 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C1-002