Top Russian Expert in Drug and Alcohol Rehab to Address National Convention Of Addiction Professionals Sept. 30, 2006
With drug and alcohol addiction in 100% of American families, either friends, family members or colleagues, Dr. Marshak offers sobriety for the sufferring.
Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) September 22, 2006
On September 30, 2006 Dr. Yakov Marshak, M. D., founder and scientific director of Russia's renowned Marshak Clinic for the treatment of drug addiction, alcohol and substance abuse, will address the CAADAC/NAADAC/NALGAP Annual Conference at the Hilton Burbank Airport in Burbank, California.
Dr. Marshak’s unique method for treating addiction has a reported success rate of 70%, according to Clinic follow up studies which track heroin addicts for two years after they complete the one month program in Moscow.
Dr. Marshak was invited to speak after Mary Woods, President of NAADAC, led a group of ten addiction professionals to Russia and the Marshak Clinic in October 2005.
Ms. Woods and the others were impressed by Dr. Marshak’s method which is based on genetic marker monitoring, a specific diet, nutritional and dietary supplements, specific oriental yoga exercises, and intensive counseling combined with a Twelve Step Program. Dr. Marshak’s treatment program is focused on normalizing the biochemical imbalance of the brain that has developed in the patients due to their substance abuse. Dr. Marshak believes that the biochemical balance of the brain needs to be normalized before one can take full advantage of the recovery process. Once the imbalance has been fixed, the counseling and teaching begins with a focus on the patient's value systems and his/her reaction to trigger points that create the thirst for the illicit substance.
"I have no doubt that implemented here, Dr. Marshak’s treatment program would have significantly better results than most private or publicly funded programs in the U. S., “ said Robert A. Kajdan, who accompanied Ms. Woods to the Marshak Clinic last year. Kajdan is Manager, Residential Treatment Programs for the Contra Costa County (California) Health Services Department.
Dr. Marshak was a member of the first group of Soviet medical doctors brought to the United States by Alcoholics Anonymous to learn about the Twelve Step Program. The Program, which has been the basis for western treatment of alcoholism and substance abuse since 1935, was unknown to Russians at that time. Dr Marshak spent half of a year in Florida at the Heritage Health Treatment Center, and half a year at the Lakeside Treatment Center in Seattle, ultimately qualifying as a Certified Addiction Professional (CAP).
On his return to Russia, where addicts were still being sent to forced labor camps, he opened a private practice. In 1997 he opened Russia’s first rehabilitation clinic, which now treats 40 patients each month.
Note: If you would like to interview Dr. Marshak or attend his speech, please contact Dianne Bennett via e-mail.
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