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A Way of Life Acupuncture
4337 Pablo Oaks Court, Bldg 200
Jacksonville, FL 32224
o: (904) 373-8415
drchristineyaz@awayoflifeacupuncture.com
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"God Bless America"
by Lee Greenwood
While the storm clouds gather
Far across the sea
Let us swear allegiance
To a land that's free
Let us all be grateful
For a land so fair
Let us raise our voices
In a solemn prayer
God bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her,
Through the night with the light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
God bless America,
My home sweet home.
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Here are the dates the office will be closed this month:
Friday June 30 thru Tue July 4th
Friday, July 7th
Friday, July 14th
Friday, July 21
Friday, July 28
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Your acupuncture testimonials are always appreciated! If you have not yet completed one, here is a link to complete it online.
To say "Thank you" for taking the time to complete your testimonial, you will receive 10% off your next treatment.
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For the summer, the office will be closed every Friday starting June 2nd thru September 8th. We will resume every other Friday starting September 15th.
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Reminder: We Moved July 1st to New Office Location
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Just a reminder, the office moved to a new office location near Mayo Clinic off San Pablo on July 1st.
The new office address is:
4337 Pablo Oaks Court
Building 200
Jacksonville, FL 32224
The office will be closed June 30th thru July 4th. We will open at the new location July 5th.
Directions to new Office:
From Butler Blvd:
Head North onto San Pablo Road.
Turn at the 2nd light for William Davis Parkway (light for Mayo Clinic ER / Cypress Village).
Take the first road on the right, Pablo Oaks Court into San Pablo Office Park.
Take the first driveway on the right. Small sign says "4337"
Follow the driveway past the first building and it will dead-end into Building 200.
From Beach Blvd / Atlantic Blvd:
Head South onto San Pablo Road.
Turn at the light for William Davis Parkway (light for Mayo Clinic ER / Cypress Village).
Take the first road on the right, Pablo Oaks Court into San Pablo Office Park.
Take the first driveway on the right. Small sign says "4337"
Follow the driveway past the first building and it will dead-end into Building 200.
Thank you and looking forward to seeing you at the new location,
Christine
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NH Lawmakers Embrace Ear Acupuncture to treat Opioid Addiction
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By KEVIN LANDRIGAN
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER - An innovative treatment for those with opioid addiction - ear acupuncture - took a giant step forward last week with legislators embracing a partisan compromise that will allow recovery workers on the front lines to deliver this treatment.
Supporters praise House and Senate leaders from both political parties for rejecting a late move by the state's acupuncture licensing board to place restrictions they say could have rendered the reform useless.
Ear acupuncture to treat addiction to heroin or fentanyl, also known as auricular acupuncture or acu-detox, is one treatment that practitioners insist can help recovering addicts deal with the painful symptoms of withdrawal and the accompanying stress.
Starting July 1, New Hampshire will join nearly two dozen states that allow this; New Hampshire advocates say the legislation here could become a national model.
"We could be trendsetters for the nation. With this bill, we have more flexibility, we have seen the mistakes other states have made in setting this up and have learned from them," said Elizabeth Ropp, a licensed acupuncturist in Manchester.
The House and Senate adopted the compromise without debate Thursday.
Advocates say since 1978 acupuncture has been deployed as a way to help fight substance abuse disorder around the world and the most effective protocol is to insert five, tiny needles into each ear at specific points.
"This can calm the craving, reduce the anxiety and trauma. It doesn't work for everybody but this is really a benign option that's worth exploring for a lot of people suffering from addiction," Ropp said.
To get certified, these specialists must complete 70 hours of classroom and clinical work under the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association program.
But the five-person Board of Acupuncture Licensing has opposed the bill from the beginning and last month the chairman of the House committee went to the Senate and urged it adopt stringent rule-making requirements.
"The draft amendment is specifically on the rule-making authority. When this bill was in the House ED&A committee, the subcommittee worked very hard on who should perform this and what the requirements should be, but the rule-making authority was somewhat sketchy," said Rep Carol McGuire, R-Epsom, and chairman of the House Executive Departments and Administration Committee.
"So the board pointed that out to me after we passed it. And so I worked out an amendment that is supported by the board of acupuncture that defines the rule-making authority, which is necessary so they can make rules for it."
The changes would have removed "general" supervision, which effectively would require that a licensed acupuncturist had to be present whenever someone certified was doing this procedure.
"This would totally make it unaffordable. The whole way this works is to allow recovery workers to give this treatment without the administrative overhead," Ropp said. "We convinced the Senate in the conference committee this was precisely how the acupuncture boards effectively killed these programs in South Carolina, Georgia and New Mexico."
While supporters could only find Democrats to sponsor the bill, Ropp said it only passed because GOP lawmakers got behind it.
"It was ultimately championed by Republicans, which is such a good sign," Ropp said. "It is safer than ear piercing. Why start with something too restrictive when we have seen states botch this by making it overly restrictive."
klandrigan@unionleader.com
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