Dr. Jay Holder, DC, CAP, CASAP, DACACD, FICA

American College of Addictionology and Compulsive Disorders

Dr. Holder is the first American physician to receive the Albert Schweitzer Prize in Medicine from the Albert Schweitzer-Gesellschaft, Austria in aegis with UNESCO, United Nations.

In 1992, he was chosen as Chiropractor of the Year by the Florida Chiropractic Association, was the Florida Chiropractic Society Researcher of the Year in 1995, and in 2019, he was named the Veteran Chiropractor of the Year by Planet Chiropractic.

Dr. Holder is an adjunct faculty member at Sherman College, an adjunct professor at St. Martin’s College in Milwaukee, and a postgraduate faculty member at Life University in Marietta, Georgia. He's held an appointment as distinguished faculty at the University of Miami, Center for Addiction Studies & Education and was a former faculty at Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Holder has held appointments as postgraduate faculty at numerous chiropractic colleges including National College, Life College, Parker College and Life West.

Other affiliations:

• Board Member, International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium;
• Former Executive Board Member, Council on Chiropractic Practice;
• Chairman of the Israel Certification Board of Addiction Professionals, Jerusalem, Israel.
• Co-Founder/Director of the Japan Certification Board of Addiction Professionals, Kawasaki, Japan.

Dr. Holder has earned four degrees, holds several licenses in various health care disciplines, and maintains multiple board certifications. He has been honored by the 103rd Congress of the United States of America and by many state governments, and several foreign governments, for his research and treatment strategies.

He is the creator of Torque Release Technique® and the IntegratorTM the first chiropractic adjusting instrument to receive an FDA 510K. Chiropractic’s first positive documentary by a major network was on Torque Release Technique.

Dr. Holder conducted the first government funded study on Cranial Nerve Augmentation (CNA) in the U.S. establishing the Foundation Point System, Limbic System and the Addiction Axis Line in CNA; often referred to as Cranial Nerve Auriculotherapy.

He has been the President Emeritus/Founder of the American College of Addictionology & Compulsive Disorders, an internationally approved Diplomate program which trains and Board Certifies all health care providers in the field of addictions & compulsive disorders worldwide for 28 years, and was Director/Founder of Exodus Addiction Treatment Center in Miami, Florida as well as the Director/Founder of Exodus Israel Addiction Treatment and Research Center in Jerusalem, Israel.

At the age of 14, Dr. Holder began his experience in research in neurotoxins at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He established the Brain Reward Cascade and Reward Deficiency Syndrome relationship that supports the role of the subluxation in “State of well-being and human potential”. The 1993 U.S. Senate compared Dr. Holder’s success in research to Michael Jordan’s performance in basketball.

Dr. Holder is the author of two texts, edited in several others, author of many published scientific papers and research studies, holds many patents and is the inventor of medical and chiropractic devices.