originally for physical pain and then gradually shifting his focus to cravings and mental health.

References

US Magazine: Puff Daddy: Celebrities -- and thousands of others -- flock to Yefim Shubentsov, aka the "Mad Russian," to help them kick the habit <-This document has been removed from Scribd (1/16/2019)
Global HR: Yefim Shubentsov named on of six influential spiritual leaders
Boston Magazine: A Brookline healer is attracting celebrities and scientists alike <-This document has been removed from Scribd (1/16/2019)
Harvard Crimson: The Mad Russian(s)
Boston Herald: Mad Russian offers nicotine cure to his `Friends'
USA Today: Celebs go 'mad' to stop smoking
Personal Life Media: Yefim Shubentsov with zero advertising has seen 100,000 clients / Radio Interview
Salon: The Eraser: Why is Hollywood flocking to Yefim Shubentsov?
ABC 20/20: Seeing Is Believing, November 6, 1997
Boston Globe: Confessions ofDouble Dragon is notable for a whole host of reasons, among them that the NES version bears one of history's most misleading game titles by being a solo adventure with nary a dragon in sight. It also opens with an iconic, if anachronistic, bang — or, more specifically, a pow. A gangster brute socks a woman in the gut and carries her off to his secret hideout. The punch was heard 'round the gaming world, launching our hero into action, a genre into dizzying popularity and a decades-spanning franchise. Not to mention spawning a movie so horrible that it makes the erratic Super Mario Bros. film look like a stroke of genius in comparison.

While not the first beat-'em-up after everyone's quarters, Double Dragon sure did scoop up a