If you work in an addiction treatment centre and would like to find out how to bring the latest nutritional approaches into your treatment centre send your details to us.

Because that is just what the NHS and private addiction centres need, more wibble and less analysis/implementation of what does work for people with addictions.
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And yes – the business plan for the FFTB is very revealing in those terms.

Isn’t there a post or comment that reveals that getting contracts for this and other mental health interventions from the NHS is in the business plan for Food for the Brain?

Pfeiffer died in 1988, and the clinic reportedly shut down in the early 90s, but something akin to it is back in operation, now called “Earth House”. To quote from their website:

“Earth House is a model residential treatment center for young adults suffering from major mental disorders such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder…

…Many [residents] have a history of suicide attempts, and a history of substance abuse is common.

I suppose we should be grateful Patrick has not set up his own residential holistic treatment centre.

BRAIN BIO CENTRE LAUNCHES ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICE*
The Brain Bio Centre is the outpatient treatment clinic for the Food for the Brain charity. The clinic specialises in the ‘optimum nutrition’ approach to mental health problems and has recently launched an addictions recovery service. Those with former addictions often suffer from abstinence symptoms including: cravings, anxiety, restlessness, irritability, poor memory, mood swings, depression, difficulty concentrating or focusing, stress and hypersensitivity to sound or noise. A comprehensive assessment of biochemical imbalances that can contribute to abstinence symptoms for those in recovery is available, plus advice to correct these imbalances as a means to restore health.
The Brain Bio Centre team, which includes nutritional therapists and consultant psychiatrists, work with any person who is in recovery from alcohol, heroin, amphetamines, cannabis and benzodiazepines. Nutritional assistance is also available to those quitting smoking, caffeine and sugar.

I had always thought that part of Cher Patrique’s achievement was his savvy-ness at not signing up to the complete loony fringes of nutritionism – or at least not making it too obvious. But his sticking to this tired line on Vitamin C for cancer, HIV etc. etc. suggests to me that he has lost the plot – perhaps it is all that “Feelin’ the love” from audiences of adoring acolytes, or of the Worried Well when he takes the show on the road.

Anyway, you would have thought that, after the Matthias Rath South African vitamins-for-HIV scam, he might have ratcheted down the pitch for vitamins as a cure-all a notch or two. But clearly not.

And all the more reason, of course, for radio and TV shows not to be giving the man a free ride to promote his codswallop.

Dr Dave Gorski has also commented on some of the more recent research concerning vitamin C and cancer.