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Contact Us or Webmaster This site is under construction. Please check back daily!	Complementary & Alternative Medicine Last spring, the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy released a report detailing more than 100 recommendations regarding the implementation of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into American health care. At the time of its release, the report was hailed by alternative medicine advocates as "a ground plan· for ways to integrate complementary and alternative medicine approaches to health care into the system Last year, about 6 million Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine, known as CAM, to treat conditions such as chronic pain and depression because conventional medicine was too pricey, according to a survey released last month from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC.) That amounts to 13 percent of the 38 million adults who used some kind of complementary medicine in the last year. Complementary and alternative medicine encompasses a wide variety of practices including acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, meditation, chiropractic treatments, massage, and sometimes even prayer. In fact, those using CAM because of cost concerns were four times as likely to be uninsured as those not fazed by price, the study found. They also were twice as likely to have low incomes, defined as below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, or $36,200 for a family of four in 2002, the study said. To be safe, one pursuing alternative health care should ask potential practioners about their education, lisencing and knowledge of “western “medicine. For more information, call The Healing Arts Medical Center, Inc at (303) 623-1140.