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Naturopathic Legislation
Naturopathic
Legislative Alert!
ANMA is closely monitoring the following states: Minnesota,
Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Georgia, Tennessee, Colorado, and Illinois.
We
recommend you become familiar with your representative telephone number,
legislative address, and e-mail address. Be ready for quick action as
this is imperative at crucial times. For a basic letter form, and other
information for contacting your representative, and state legislature
please read the following:
Florida
2004 Sunrise Report Proposed Licensure
(PDF Format)
The following report illustrates once again the State of Florida does
not recognize the need for licensing naturopathic physicians. Florida
concludes that by licensing naturopathic physician types, it will
represent a potential risk to the public.
Naturopathic
Bill Moves With Push From Movie Tycoon
For decades, members of specialized occupational groups have sought
state-enforced professional licensure through the Legislature, thus
gaining public status and official control over would-be competitors for
customers.
For decades, practitioners of various medical care
specialties have sought legislation to either expand the legal scopes of
their practices (such as podiatrists seeking to perform ankle surgery or
psychologists wanting the power to prescribe drugs), or restrict those
of competitors.
SB 907, carried by the Legislature's most influential
member, Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, encompasses both of those
hoary political traditions. But it also represents another increasingly
common trend: dabbling by Hollywood celebrities in pursuit of their pet
political and social causes -- such as Arnold Schwarzenegger's
after-school care initiative (which may also set him up to run for
governor) or Rob Reiner's measure that raises cigarette taxes for health
care expansion.
Alaska
Alaska statutes, restrictions on practice of naturopathy.
Naturopathic
State Laws
Find Out Naturopathic Laws by State.
Response to
the "OAND"
Illness prevention, lower health care costs, reduced drug usage - these
are some of the health care goals of the Ontario Government. Naturopathic medicine can help the
government achieve these goals. Yet the government is impeding the growth of naturopathic
medicine by stalling the introduction of a promised new regulatory law. A new law
would...
Washington
Legislation
The following is a report prepared by the Washington Association of
Naturopathic Physicians (WANP) for the Washington State Legislature. The
naturopaths are asking for drugs, surgery and IV therapy which would
cover Chelation. These naturopaths are not just asking for any drug;
they want narcotics under the Controlled Substances III & IV
categories.
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