Dear Dr. Holder:
NTA, Inc. currently manages Substance Abuse Programs for over
100,000 Department of Transportation employees. Additionally, we manage programs for many stores, plants and
businesses that test their non-DOT employees and are the supplier of the
only fully warranted “on-site” test kit with a hold harmless.
The mission of NTA, Inc. is one of regulatory compliance for the
Federally Mandated Drug and Alcohol programs, as well as compliance for
companies that are safety conscious and wish to save annual dollars in
their insurance packages both health and workers compensation.
This letter is to inform you that after careful review and investigation
of your core curriculum, faculty and accreditations, NTA, Inc. has
agreed to accept and partner with graduates that have been
granted their C.Ad. designation from your institution into both our
wellness and Substance Abuse Programs.
Should Doctors wish to partner with NTA, Inc. in performing specimen
collections, breath alcohol testing, DOT physicals, and wellness checks
please fill out and return the enclosed information or give us a call at
(800) 452-0030 ext. 354 or ext. 109.
Further, we are so impressed with your mission and the educational
quality of your program, NTA, Inc. will extend a great dollar amount to
any person who your college can verify as having graduated your program
and currently holds the C.Ad. designation.
NTA, Inc. has not afforded any other organization this
relationship.
Your graduates would receive at least a 20% increase in their
reimbursement in performing DOT physicals urine collections and breath
analysis testing. For
example, urines normally paid in $5.00 will now be paid at $6.00 and
physicals paid at $35.00 will now be paid at $40.00.
NTA, Inc. will also offer you the opportunity to receive 20%
profit on any client you may wish to bring into our association.
NTA, Inc. will provide, through laboratories, all materials needed for
collection and testing including the PATIENTS themselves to the C.Ad.
holder’s office. We
expect to refer large numbers of persons to be tested to your graduates. Therefore, please forward me to your registry of C.Ad.
graduates.
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The American College of Addictionology and
Compulsive Disorders (ACACD) enters its tenth year of offering board
certification in addictions and compulsive disorders to chiropractors and
other health care professionals.
The C.Ad. (Certified Addictionologist) credential has been earned by
approximately 1000 D.C.s, and has been an overwhelming success in
positioning chiropractors and other professionals with board certification
to be primary intervention resources for our country's number one cause of
death and crime.
This disease affects more than 50 million people and chiropractic has been
proven effective in randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial. That
means the C.Ad. program has become a necessity for principled, subluxation-based
doctors of chiropractic who want to make a bigger difference in their
communities.
Newly published scientific research has established the effectiveness of
subluxation-centered chiropractic care and the appropriateness of the
well-care
model, and/or the "lack of" date of well being now referred to
as "Reward Deficiency Syndrome" (RDS).
In November 2000, the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, a prestigious medical
journal, published the first scientific model of the subluxation in state
of well-being (RDS). Another journal - rated second in the world in neurosciences - is scheduled to publish the outcomes of direct subluxation
correction (Torque Release Technique) in the addicted person, this month.
Since chiropractic provides drug-free health care, eliminating risk to the
addict, the chiropractor remains this nation's greatest primary
intervention resource for America's leading health care concern.
For effective recovery, treatment, and aftercare, addicts require
lifetime, drug-free intervention. The resources medicine has to offer
(i.e., pharmacological intervention), often place the addict at risk of
relapse.
This training program brings principled, subluxation-based chiropractic
full circle since B.J. Palmer himself talked and wrote of the
effectiveness of chiropractic in aiding the addicted person.
Some of the benefits to chiropractors include the expansion of their
practices into this new and exciting field. Insurance reimbursement for
certain services offered by the Board Certified Addictionologist may be
available even in cases that would not normally be reimbursable for
chiropractic or getting on HMOs when slots for D.C.s are full.
The program also satisfies the requirement for advanced certifications for
D.C.s participating in managed care programs.
"There are dozens of practical opportunities for the chiropractor
that are taught throughout the program," stated Dr. Jay Holder,
president of ACACD. "This is not just another post-graduate program
that offers you nothing that you could have done in practice anyway. With
my own private chiropractic practice included in federally funded
research, I can only conclude that any D.C. could do the same if they only
knew how."
The training program is presently being offered on a one-weekend-a-month
basis. Thanks to the nine-member faculty, all 10 modules are independent
of each other, allowing the participant to take the modules out of order,
and/or start at any module weekend. Participants also are not restricted
to any single location. Therefore, the program can be completed in 10
months.
The C.Ad. program will being in March 2001 in Las Vegas. The program is
co-sponsored by two colleges: Graceland University of Independence, Mo.,
and St. Martin's College of Milwaukee, as well as two national
organizations. The largest nursing school in North America is at
Graceland's Medical Campus.
Chiropractic renewal approved for in Nevada and now many other states. The
board certification program offered by the ACACD is approved/certified by
the State of New York, Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS)
and the Certification Board of Addiction Professionals of Florida (CBAPF),
which are State Member Boards of the International Certification &
reciprocity Consortium (ICRC).
The ICRC provides reciprocity services to approximately 42 states in the
United States, Canada, seven other countries, all branches of the U.S.
military, and indian Health Services.
Until now, the use of the title addictionologist was limited to physicians
only, thereby defining "addictionologist" as physician-level
board certification. This certification and credential is now being
offered to the chiropractic profession.
According to ACACD Program Coordinator, Michael Davis, D.C. C.Ad.,
"Addiction is a multifactorial disease having psychological, genetic,
metabolic and spiritual components. The most significant mechanism of this
disease process is manifest through neurophysiological insult within the
dorsal horn of the spinal cord as expressed in the "Brain Reward
Cascade Model", which aligns itself with the known causes of the of
the vertebral subluxation."
After a century of helping people with their health problems without drugs
or surgery, the chiropractic profession now has a program designed to
teach themselves and other health care professionals how to get people
addicted to drugs off the habit and deal with the compulsive disorders
like ADHD, our nation's leading pediatric complaint, eating disorders and
other RDS issues.
The World Chiropractic Alliance's Council on Addictions and Compulsive
Disorders operates under the aegis of the ACACD and is open to all WCA
members.
"The ACACD program, now in its 10th year, promises to be exciting,
practical and informative," says Dr. Holder. It is open to all
healthcare providers.
To obtain a copy of the research and/or a brochure outlining the
Certification Program, contact the ACACD at 800-490-7714 or 305-535-8803
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