Dr James Alexander, PhD- Psychologist

Coherence Therapy Training (Intro level)- Lismore Fri 7th Nov 2014

This Intro level training will be conducted over 1 day..

Crisis? What Crisis?

With the 50 fold increase in use of opioid pain killing medications in the last decade has come a 15 fold increase in accidental drug deaths from them. In Australia, presciption drug deaths now out number illicit drug deaths. In American, more peope die from prescription drugs than from car accidents. One in every three Americans is currently on 2 or more pharmaceutical drugs, most of which are narcotics to deal with chronic pain. There has been a 400% increase in the prescription of antidepressant drugs in America in the last 25 years, more than half of which are used for issues such as chronic pain. The rest of the Western world, including Australia and the U.K, is not far behind in these trends. Clearly, the medical/pharmaceutical response to both depressed mood and chronic pain are not working- in fact, people are suffering additional hardship as a result of what have become the standard health interventions.