Mr. Natural, M.d.
November, 1993
Fifteen years ago, when I was doing a story on the death of the Bronx, I wandered into the Lincoln Hospital detox center run by Dr. Michael Smith. I couldn't believe what I saw: The doctor was sticking acupuncture needles into a heroin addict and calling it treatment. True, the Chinese have been using acupuncture for centuries, but trying it in a program in the Bronx was controversial, to say the least. Back then, many of the doctors and city bureaucrats I talked with thought Smith's use of acup...
