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Many now pursue alternative pain treatments to avoid opioids
Acupuncture, other tools seen as preferable to use of strong narcotics
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Tamara Clarke of Flourish Acupuncture & Healing Arts in Gainesville rubs a patient's shoulders following treatment for a sore neck Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at her offices at 615 Green St. - photo by Scott Rogers
Some days it’s too painful for Teresa Roth’s 4-year-old son Thomas to put on his own shoes and socks. Diagnosed at 18 months with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, the boy has chronic pain all over, particularly in his joints and his back. Paired with Chiari malformation, a brain structural defect, he also suffers the occasional “migraine times a million.”