As a certified addictionologist, Dr. Miller is an expert in relapse prevention who has worked in the addiction field for 27 years. He has developed strategies for chronic relapsers to increase their sobriety skills and has developed a new approach to relapse prevention that complements treatment methods that address the physiology of addiction. He has done addiction counseling in private practice, in an intensive outpatient treatment program, in a detoxification program, in a family intervention practice, and in a food addiction program. He has been a consultant to numerous treatment centers, many of them specializing in relapse prevention and/or intravenous amino acid therapy.

Dr. Miller was an associate professor of addiction studies at Graceland University in Independence, Missouri, where he was on faculty for eight years. Before that he taught addiction studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, for 11 years. He is currently working to promote integrative addiction treatment utilizing nutrition, acupuncture, intravenous, and oral supplementation therapy, and other alternative treatments. Dr. Miller has studied intravenous amino acid therapy under Dr. William Hitt and Dr. Kenneth Blum and with Dr. James Braly. He is trained in brain wave biofeedback specializing in treatment for addiction and attention deficit disorder.

Dr. Miller has studied the relationship between brain chemistry and such disorders as addiction, attention deficit disorder, and weight management writing about these subjects in books he has co-authored: Overload: Attention Deficit Disorder and the Addictive Brain; Reversing the Weight Gain Spiral; Learning to Live Again: A Guide to Recovery from Chemical Dependency and Staying Clean and Sober: Complementary and Natural Strategies for Healing the Addicted Brain.

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Merlene Miller is a certified addictionologist and relapse prevention specialist and an educator and author with 25 years of experience in the addiction field. She developed the addiction studies curriculum for Park University in Parkville, Missouri, where she taught for 11 years and also at Graceland University in Independence, Missouri, where she was an associate professor for six years.

She has developed educational materials for addiction treatment centers throughout the United States and has worked as a consultant doing staff training and professional development for numerous treatment centers. Merlene has worked with her husband, David, in a private treatment center and in a private practice doing family interventions and relapse prevention. She is on the board of directors of the American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders.

Merlene Miller has authored or co-authored numerous books including Staying Sober: A Guide to Relapse Prevention and Learning to Live Again: A Guide to Recovery from Chemical Dependence. Her most recent book written with David Miller is Staying Clean and Sober: Complementary and Natural Strategies for Healing the Addicted Brain.

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Julia Ross is a pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology and a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders and addictions. She has founded and directed six successful recovery programs since 1980 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of her favorite achievements include starting Northern California's first treatment program for food addicts and the area's first programs for drug-addicted adolescents and their families. Receiving a state award for her work with diabetes and addiction in California's Native American tribal clinics is another of her most treasured achievements.

In 1980, Ross began hiring nutritionists to research the link between biochemistry, emotions, and addiction. By 1986 this exploration had led to the creation of an exciting new model of treatment that combined innovative nutritional therapy and holistic medical care with conventional counseling and education. This new model gave hope to the 90% of addicts of all kinds who were unable to sustain recovery through traditional programs. In 1988 Ross founded The Recovery Systems Clinic in Mill Valley, California, an outpatient program that further developed this model, with a special focus on treating people with dieting disorders and carbohydrate addictions.

Ross is a popular and compelling speaker who has made hundreds of presentations to introduce the public to the extraordinary benefits of nutrient therapy and biochemical rebalancing. In addition to a busy lecture schedule in California and throughout the US and Canada, Julia provides intensive training's for professionals on how to successfully treat eating disorders, mood problems and chemical dependency. She has frequently taught courses in John F. Kennedy University's graduate psychology program in Orinda, California, and at the University of California, Berkeley Extension's Addiction Counseling Certificate Program.

Ross' best-selling book, The Diet Cure, has sold over 150,000 copies in the U.S, the U.K. and Australia. When the Diet Cure book proposal was first sent to the New York publishing houses it created a sensation. Seven publishers bid on it because of its unique approach to the top selling subject in America: Dieting. Julia has recently completed a second book, The Mood Cure, released in paperback in 2004 and a finalist for "The Books for a Better Life Award." The many publications that have featured Ross' work include: Psychology Today, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Alternative Medicine and Natural Health.

Ross has frequently appeared as an expert on radio and television programs. Her first national TV appearance, on a 1997 news segment about amino acid therapy, generated 50,000 calls to the producers.

Julia holds an M.A. in Clinical Psychology, as well as a California marriage and family therapy license. She is the Executive Director of The Recovery Systems Clinic in Mill Valley, California.

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