ACUS FOUNDATION BRINGS LIFE-CHANGING MEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE
TO OUR NATION'S SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS.
WE TRAIN THE DOCTORS WHO TREAT THE PAIN.
MAKING WARRIORS WELL
Acus Foundation teaches military
and VA physicians to
Think Acupuncture First
when treating pain and stress problems.
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS.
60,000
…U.S. service members have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
90%
…live in chronic pain.
45%
…reduction in opioid prescriptions shown at the Acus flagship program.
400,000-500,000
…U.S. veterans of recent wars suffer from combat-related pain and stress.
$2 billion
…was spent on treatments for veterans recently diagnosed with PTS and TBI in 2010.
232
…military healthcare providers were trained by Acus in 2017 and 2018.