Addiction Conference

Drug-Free and Cost-Effective, Acupuncture Is Useful for Addiction Say Experts

Sacramento, CA - January 20, 2009 - Lianne Audette, LAc, ND, whose pioneering work with addicts on the streets of Santa Monica led to the creation of one of the first community acupuncture drug detox treatment programs, opens the conference Brain Repair for Addictive Disorders: Cost-Effective, Successful, Drug-Free Therapies which takes place in Sacramento, CA April 17-19th, 2009.

Audette, a longtime trainer for the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) will speak twice: on the benefit of acupuncture for patients in denial about their addiction, and about the use of ear seeds for addictive and mental health disorders. She joins 19 others whose research or clinical practices reveal simple changes, including nutritional supplements, quality food, acupuncture, exercise, or self-administered acupressure, that can quickly improve results in public and private treatment programs for everything from eating disorders to addictions to sex, gambling, prescription drugs, and street drugs.

"In a sea of despair, we offer an island of good news," says Carolyn Reuben, L.Ac., Executive Director of Community Addiction Recovery Association (CARA), the conference host. "A recent State-funded Cost Benefit Analysis of our Sacramento County Adult Drug Court program with its daily acupuncture, nutritional supplements, and nutritious food and weekly acupressure, qigong, tai chi, and yoga added to the conventional mental health and addictions counseling model found 83% of our graduates stayed out of the criminal justice system during the two years following graduation, and saved Sacramento County $20 million. Our Brain Repair conference will teach others how to see such results quickly in their own programs and private practices."

The California Dept. of Alcohol and Drug Programs (ADP) is co-sponsor. ADP Director, Renée Zito, is the Saturday luncheon banquet speaker. Student rates available. Early Bird registration discount is available until February 1st and then a 15% discount for groups of three or more applies. Exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are also available. CEUs from the California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM are pending.

See www.carasac.org for information and registration.

Learn to apply 21st century science and nature's wisdom through qi balancing and nutrition for addiction treatment.

Contact:
Marina Roy, Administrative Services
Community Addiction Recovery Assoc. (CARA)
Supporting Recovery Naturally