The conventional salicylates (aspirin), Non steroidal inflammatory drugs - NSAIDS (ibuprofen, Indomethacin etc) and opioids in particular have so far posed the problem of dependency and addiction thus the need for us as humans to start looking into another direction for relieving pain.

I found this to be interesting argument. I agree that we need to seek alternative to these self destructive drugs, though not all. How ever, acupuncture sound to me like a bizzare because of the fact of driving pin through the body. In my opinion, Chinese medicine which is developed from their traditional medicine came up with these discovery and it is never forced on one to accept.

Several years back, chinese medical technique was employed on an uncle of mine suffering from paralysis , he couldn't stand and do anything on his own, but after four weeks of treatment he began to recover, no single drug was administer on him, withing two months, he was on his feet again, and you would not believe that he once suffered from stroke. To me it was not a placebo but something authodox medicine can not explain therefore they disprove it.

Alternative medicine will go along way to help us.
My question is what is the body energy system that acupuncture treatment based on?
Thanks @cyprianj for this. Also some things can be new to some folks especially when they think they should know all.
Then check the post again, there are few typo errors there