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Chiropractic helps in
treatment of addicts
From the March 29, 2001 issue of the Miami Herald comes
a story of how chiropractic care is helping those in a
Miami drug addiction program. The story starts by
explaining that patients in a residential drug-addiction
program who received chiropractic care designed to
realign their vertebrae completed the treatment program
at a remarkable 100 percent rate.
Ninety-eight patients at Miami's Exodus drug-treatment
program participated in the study that was featured in a
Journal of Nature magazine called "Molecular
Psychiatry". The study also reported that the patients
involved in the study at the treatment center who
received chiropractic care made fewer visits to a
nurses' station and showed significant decreases in
anxiety.
Dr. Jay Holder, medical director of the Exodus program
and the chiropractor who conducted the study said,
"Completing a 28- to 30-day program greatly enhances an
addict's chances of staying clean, but nationally only
72 percent of participants make it all the way through
such programs." Holder went on to say, "This correction
of what chiropractors call subluxation results in a
sense of well-being that allows patients to benefit more
thoroughly from the group therapy and medical care of
addiction treatment." "Chiropractic does not treat
addiction -- it does not treat any disease,'' Holder
said. ``We're allowing those things that treat addiction
to be embraced more thoroughly.''
The participants were divided into three groups. One
group got the regular regime of addiction care. The
second group got "sham" adjustments, while the third
group got actual chiropractic adjustments to correct
subluxations. The group with the regular care and the
sham chiropractic had a completion rate in the program
of only 74% and 56%. The group that received the
chiropractic care to correct subluxations showed a
completion rate of 100%. The implications of completion
of a drug treatment program are very important to
preventing addicts from returning to drugs.
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