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Stan StokesStan Stokes, MS, CCDC is CEO and President of Bridging the Gaps, Inc., an integrated treatment facility for adults in Winchester, VA.

Bridging the Gaps’ is highly successful and their treatment provides a 12-Step based psychosocial program while focusing on rebalancing brain chemistry and building up the body through the use of oral and intravenous therapy, acupuncture, exercise, meditation, and other stress reduction techniques.

Stan’s professional background includes over 30 years experience in the addictions field both in the military and private sectors. He brings an innovative approach to the treatment field by integrating traditional and alternative health approaches to .

Stan recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. His topic is The Hidden Story of Addiction Treatment: How We Found the Stool's Third Leg.

Stan Stokes takes you on a fascinating journey of how he overcame his own addictions and the trials and tribulations along the way. Learn how he discovered the missing piece of the treatment puzzle - "the third leg".

This video is a "must see" for anyone who wants to learn how to beat their addiction or has had relapses and can not figure out why they can not conquer it.

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Hyla Cass, MD, has integrated metabolic medicine with psychiatry in her clinical practice of over 20 years, and is a noted public speaker, consultant, and educator on complementary medicine and psychiatry, women's health , and for anxiety disorders, depression and addiction.

She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, and has written numerous books including Natural Highs and Supplement Your Prescription.

Dr. Cass' years of experience have yielded three guiding principles:

1-Treat the whole person - mind, body, spirit, and environment.
2-Look first for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms.
3-Apply a continuum of treatments, always beginning with the safest, most natural, and most benign.

Dr. Cass recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. Her topic: Nutritional Approaches to Addiction Recovery.

Learn about recovery without medication and eliminating depression, anxiety, insomnia, and other neurotransmitter deficiency symptoms with targeted nutrient supplementation.

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Julia holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology, as well as a California marriage and family therapy license and has frequently appeared as an expert on radio and television programs. She is the author of The Mood Cure, a brain repair manual for mood and addiction problems, and the best selling The Diet Cure on recovery from carbohydrate addiction. She also presents training seminars in amino acid therapy for treatment of chemical dependency.

Julia recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. Her topic: Marijuana and Methamphetamine: Treatment That Works. This video is a 'must see' for anyone who wants to learn that it is possible to use nutrition and specific supplements to get off of drugs such as and . She even states that it is "easy" to get off of meth compared to other drugs and she tells how to do it!

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Stephen Schoenthaler holds a PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Criminology from the State University of New York in Buffalo. He developed an interest in nutrition and behavior research while teaching and that interest has continued for over 25 years at CSU, Stanislaus. Dr. Schoenthalers work has appeared in all four of the most prestigious scholarly journals worldwide. He has also published over 40 peer reviewed articles and 150 professional presentations in addition to having multiple television specials devoted to his work.

In one of his research reports he tells about how the use of vitamin-mineral supplements was able to reduce, on average, prison violence 38%. This report also shows how Dr. Schoenthaler calculated a ratio of $1 invested in supplements returns $1,000 within a month to the California Department of Corrections! Read more about it here: Simple Solution to Prison Violence

Dr. Schoenthaler recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. His topic is The Effect of Nutrition on Behavior and Performance.

The video presentation includes numerous case studies about how a low and good nutrition with specific vitamin mineral supplements had positive results with various groups. Violence and antisocial behaviors were greatly reduced in prisons and academic performance in schools increased.

Professionals in the field and parents in general would benefit from watching this video.

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Dr. Joan Mathews-LarsonJoan Mathews-Larson, PhD, is a pioneer in the addiction field and has authored national best-selling books, "Seven Weeks to Sobriety" and "Depression Free, Naturally".

Dr. Larson is the founder and Executive Director of the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, an orthomolecular (psycho-biological) model for and emotional disorders. This unique focus combines therapy with physiological intervention to repair biochemical damage that often manifests as impaired mental functioning and behavior problems. Her work has received national recognition because of the high recovery rates this model produces.

The loss of her seventeen-year old son to suicide directly after he completed a fueled her on-going search for more effective solutions. Her clinic has now successfully treated many thousands of people over a 26-year period.

Dr. Larson has appeared on more than 500 TV and radio shows. She has also been named as one of an elite group of six national researchers and practitioners who have made a significant contribution to the world of medicine.

She recently gave a presentation at the Beyond Talk Therapy: New Frontiers in Addiction Treatment Symposium in Sacramento, California. Her topic: Dual Diagnosis: Mental Illness as a Nutritional Deficiency Disease. This video is a 'must see' for anyone who wants to learn about effective treatments without drugs for addictions and various mental disorders.

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