Statement of Purpose

The purpose of the legislation:

Protect licensed healthcare professionals who choose to incorporate alternative and complementary therapies into their practice. Prosecution by State Boards for practicing such therapies will be avoided.

Allow practitioners of alternative and complementary therapies that do not require state licensure, to practice without fear of prosecution. Those using herbs, iridology, nutrition, reiki, naturopathy, homeopathy, faith healers, and various other forms of alternative therapies would be free to practice without persecution. The proposed legislation would allow the practice of any modality not requiring licensure under Title 17 of the Arkansas Occupational Titles.

Guarantee your access to vitamins and dietary supplements. The people of Arkansas want to affirm the right to purchase over-the-counter health products, dietary supplements, and vitamins without restriction or prescription.

Encourage the education and promotion of living a healthy lifestyle. We share the vision of the National Health Freedom Coalition which is “A healthy nation, with empowered people, making informed health care decisions.”

The purpose of the Arkansas Health Freedom Coalition is to work at State, National, and International levels to:

1. promote legislative reform giving people unhindered access to all health care information, services, treatments, and products that they deem beneficial for their own health and survival, and

2. promote legislative reform giving the right to practice to unlicensed practitioners of all modalities of natural, alternative, and complementary health care.

3. promote legislative reform giving the right to unlicensed practitioners and health care educators to teach people all facets of maintaining good health trough all natural and alternative means.

4. promote legislative reform giving the right to unlicensed health care educators to instruct, and offer in-classroom and correspondence courses in, all modalities of natural, alternative, and complementary health care practices to students and apprentices.

5. promote perpetual, access, with out need of a doctor's prescription, to food supplements in potencies above the RDA, herbs, herbal products, essential oils, and all natural, alternative health care products.

6. promote freedom to teach, without fear of being charged with violating the Arkansas Health Professions Codes, and to be educated in, all alternative health care modalities.

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
  Winston Churchill

--Dr Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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