John J Giordano, Pioneer In Holistic Addiction Treatment, Asked To Join JRDS Editorial Board

TAMPA, Fla. - Nov. 26, 2014 - PRLog -- John J Giordano, DHL, MAC, a pioneer in holistic addiction treatment and founder/former owner of G & GHolisticAddictionTreatmentCenter, has accepted Dr. Kenneth Blum’s invitation to join the editorial board of The Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (JRDS). Giordano’s primary responsibility as an editorial board member will be to review papers, thereby providing a consistent level of quality in the reviewing process.

The Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (JRDS) is a new peer-reviewed quarterly published journal that covers the experimental, clinical and epidemiological areas of research which involves the gene associations (including environmental epigenetics) especially the genes involved in brain reward circuitry. It will provide a platform for understanding of the commonality of brain function in substance and non-substance addictive behaviors. In addition to original research, the journal features review articles, clinical studies reports, case reports, hypotheses, letters to editors, articles with novel techniques and book reviews. For more information please visit: http://blumsrewarddeficiencysyndrome.com/

John J Giordano is a pioneer in holistic addiction treatment. He is the founder and former president of G & GHolisticAddictionTreatmentCenter, a 62 bed in/out patient JCAHO accredited facility located in North Miami Beach, Florida. During his tenure as president, Giordano was one of the first to introduce holistic modalities into the mainstream of addiction treatment. Decades of scientific research has borne out Giordano’s early beliefs that addiction is a mosaic of many seemingly unrelated parts – and each part requires specialized modalities.

Giordano has contributed to sixty-five papers that have been published in peer reviewed scientific and medical journals. He looks upon this new appointment as an opportunity to further the understanding and effects of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) in the medical field as well as the public domain. His fervent belief is that a through understanding of RDS is the key to effective addiction treatment and fewer relapses.

John Giordano, DHL, MAC And Dr Kenneth Blum are available for interviews by contacting Omni Publicity, Joe Ullrich http://www.omnipublicity.com

CREDENTIALS: John Giordano is the former president and co-founder of the prestigious G & G Holistic Addiction Treatment Center, a 62 bed in-patient/out-patient JACHO accredited addiction treatment center, he’d started over twenty-years ago, and The National Institute Of Holistic Addiction Studies (NIFHAS). He is the proud recipient of a Doctor Of Human Letters from Sinai University in Jerusalem. Giordano is a recovering addict with twenty-nine years of sobriety to his credit. Mr. Giordano is a therapist, Certified Addiction Professional (CAP), a Master Addictions Counselor (MAC), Certified Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Specialist, Trauma Relief Specialist (TRT), Certified Hypnotherapist and a Certified Criminal Justice Specialist (CCJS). Mr. Giordano also earned a Masters Certification in Neurolinguistics Programming (NLP). He is a professional expert witness for the state and federal government. John is a Karate Grand Master 10^th degree black belt and is in the Karate Hall Of Fame. Mr. Giordano is the chaplain of the North Miami Police Department. For more information please visit http:/www.holisticaddictioninfo.com (http://www.holisticaddictioninfo.com/)

CREDENTIALS: Dr Kenneth Blum made global headlines with his co-discovery of the “Reward Gene,” published by the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 1990. Dr Blum is considered by many as the father of “Psychiatric Genetics” and Neuroadaptagen Amino-Acid Therapy (NAAT). Currently, Dr. Blum is Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientific Officer of LifeGen, Inc. San Diego, California and managing partner of Reward Deficiency Solutions, LLC, and San Diego, California.  He was formerly Full Professor of Pharmacology, University of Texas, at San Antonio, Texas for 23 years (retired).  He is currently Full Professor of   the Department of Psychiatry and McKnight Brain Institute University of Florida College of Medicine, GainesvilleFlorida.  He served as Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology,  Wake forest College of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He serves as scientific Director, PATH Foundation, New York. He has received numerous awards including NIDA Career Teacher Award; American Chemical Society Speakers Award; Gordon Conference Research Award; Presidential Excellence award (National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse). Dr Blum has authored and edited eleven books, was an editor –in –chief of an Elsevier Journal, and has published over 400 peer reviewed papers.  Coined “Brain Reward Cascade and Reward Deficiency Syndrome RDS) and is credited as the lead author in the first association of the Dopamine D2 receptor gene with severe alcoholism (JAMA, 1990). Dr. Blum holds both US & foreign patents on Nutrigenomics. He serves on 7 editorial boards and is the associate editor on two boards including section editor of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology journal and is an ad hock reviewer for 40 journals world-wide.

Journal of Reward Deficiency Syndrome (JRDS)

Editorial Board Members

Kenneth Blum, PhD, DHL

University of Florida, USA

Editor-in-Chief

Rajendra Badgaiyan, MD

University of Minnesota, USA

Co-Editor-in-Chief