Transformation and Recovery is the only definitive book on acupuncture and addiction recovery.
More than a manual or "how-to" book, Transformation and Recovery offers a bold and insightful philosophical and historical interpretation of addiction and recovery.
Transformation and Recovery: A Guide for the Design and Development of Acupuncture-Based Chemical Dependency Treatment Programs has become a standard reference for acupuncturists and for addiction treatment programs who have added or wish to add acupuncture as an integrated treatment component.
This groundbreaking book has been used as a textbook in Colleges of Oriental Medicine, and is a recommended resource for Certification by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association.
Transformation and Recovery Includes:
- Over 300 footnotes and a comprehensive bibliography
- The classic and comprehensive Literature Review, Auricular Acupuncture for Chemical Dependency, by Dr. Ruth Ackerman
- So You Want to Start an Acupuncture Treatment Program for Detoxification, Relapse Prevention, and Preparation for Counseling A Case History of the Development of an Acupuncture Demonstration Program, by Dr. Ruth Ackerman.
- Full text of the article Acupuncture: New Perspectives in Chemical Dependency Treatment, published by Alex Brumbaugh by the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in 1993 the first non-research article supporting acupuncture to appear in a major journal.
- A Counselor s Guide to Acupuncture in the Treatment of Addiction, by Cally Haber and Charles Singer, Santa Cruz, California.