08/29/2019
Press Release For immediate release August 6, 2019
OPIOID COMMUNITY CONNECT A TOWN HALL MEETING SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 Faison Fire House Theatre, 122nd St in Harlem, NY
Harlem, New York - On September 19, 2019 New York City will be United in the War against Addiction. The Public Health Service event will serve to increase the public awareness to the opioid crisis and create a community dialogue. Come join the conversation on how traditional addiction treatment can become more successful. Learn how addiction can be less likely to happen in the first place.
Taking any amount of Opioids lead to addiction. Limiting the size of an opioid prescription doesn't stop addiction. 80% of Americans using He**in misused opiates first. Prescribing alternate pain relieving medication does not normalize the reward center. Learn how to reduce the vulnerability to addictive behavior before and after it happens. Learn how to reduce pharmaceutical use and cost by 85%. Learn how to reduce the number of people who are becoming addicted. Learn how to help those who are already addicted with non-pharmaceutical means.
Dr. Tim Kelly will introduce the science behind how the reward center of your brain can be negatively affected. This negative effect increases your risk to have addictive behaviors before ever being exposed to addictive substances or an experience. He will share how the reward center can be positively influenced in a non-pharmaceutical way.
A number of other doctors will share necessary action steps to help you or your loved ones' reward center from turning to addictive behaviors. The Doctors will have updates on Legislative proposals to increase access to drug-free, non-pharmaceutical means for those in pain.
Whose invited: The Press, legislators, churches, schools and the public.
Our objective is to work to prevent and reduce the number of people from getting addicted in the first place. We in the New York Chiropractic Council have found that talk of a solution for prevention of addiction is lost in the talk on treatment of addiction.
Our objectives are to: educate the public and our legislators to several facts, to pass legislation to help prevent addiction, to increase access and remove barriers to drug free care of people who have pain and to prevent addiction before it starts.
We have partnered with other health professions in NYS to author a bill that would have a patient need to have a conversation or referral about other options to pain relief prior to opioid prescription. The New York Chiropractic Council feels that Chiropractic care, physical therapy, acupuncture and massage therapy should be an important part of the treatment for those in pain, those who are addicted to opioids, as well as those who are not addicted yet.
Contact: Barbara Contessa Executive Director New York Chiropractic Council
71-31 Myrtle Avenue Glendale, NY 11385-7223 -1–800-426-6922 – Fax 718-497-0972