Research chemist Richard Dan, Ph.D., is president and CEO of Diatech, Inc., in New Hampshire. "There's a tendency in certain sectors of the scientific community to think that you can solve all problems with substances. I think it's a false solution, something that hasn't been looked at rigorously.
I don't think policy makers have been properly informed on pharmacotherapy; it's an inappropriate way to spend money right now, " he said.
"The most successful program I've seen is the Hubbard program, utilized at Narconon, which gets drug abusers off drugs without putting them on additional substances, " he added. The 26-year- old Narconon program uses vitamins as well as a detoxification procedure to eliminate accumulated drug
residues from fat tissue.
Bernard Rimland, PhD, director of the Institute for Child Behavior Research in San Diego, said, "Pharmacotherapy should be a treatment of last resort. There are some instances where it's necessary, but I think it's far more rational and far more defensible to try working with nutrients first, with substances
that are normally present in the human body."
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