We recently learned about NFWL and encourage all people interested in promoting alternative medicine to support this organization. Even a donation as little as $5 from folks like you allows NFWL to continue creating policy around alternative medicine like the inspirational program described below. Please click on http://www.womenlegislators.org/contribute/ to make your donation. Here's an example of how NFWL creates policy around alternative medicine.
NFWL bused over 300 women legislators from Canada and the United States to a Mexican prison. Why? NFWL was holding their national conference in San Diego and saw an opportunity to create change and promote alternative medicine while doing so. The genius of NFWL is that this organization understands that the fastest way to create change is to first create passion.
NFWL identified a successful drug rehabilitation program in Mexican prison close to the U.S. boarder and planned an event designed to give women policymakers an unforgettable experience that would move them to action.
This prison drug program was entirely based on alternative medicine treatments and was generating astonishing results including a recidivism rate (return to drug use) of less than 12 %. (Most drug rehabilitation programs in the United States have recidivism rates of over 80%.) The crime rates in areas where the prisoners were released also dropped substantially due to a decrease in drug-related crimes.
Rather than give the legislators a power point presentation about this program, NFWL let these legislators walked into every area of the Mexican prison so that they experienced a drug detoxification program based on daily saunas and vitamin treatments. The legislators participated in group counseling sessions run by other inmates and they talked to prisoners, through interpreters, who were in various stages of detoxification. They also met with prison officials running the program. Although the temperature in the prison was over 90 degrees, none of the legislators regretted this experience and they were very excited about the program.
NFWL guided these women legislators to develop a more humane and effective means to deal with drug addicts, reduce the cost of treatment, reduce crime rates, create safer communities and treat drug-addicts in a more humane way.
NFWL is able to consistently bring this level of program quality to women legislators. Without NFWL, small organizations and health-conscious consumers have no means to compete with the huge sums of money spent by organizations that thrive on disease-based models of care. Learn more about NFWL at http://www.womenlegislators.com and please help support this worthy organization by going to http://www.womenlegislators.org/contribute/