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[Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc] [Rock Medicine]
	Rock Medicine
Health Care Is A Right, Not A Privilege Rock Medicine is a mobile medical emergency facility. This Program of the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics is set up to treat attendees at large gatherings such as concerts, public, commercial and private events, sports events. A comprehensive assortment of supplies, medications and equipment travels with Rock Medicine wherever its sent in ''road boxes'' modeled on those the bands use to transport their equipment.
Unofficial Newsletter & Show List (updated weekly ) This is a list of upcoming shows and other information for those who are all ready Rock Medicine Volunteers.
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Information What is Rock Medicine? a mobile Medical facility. Its work areas range from dusty fields with nylon parachutes slung overhead to three rooms with three sinks, a bathroom!, What Does Rock Med Do? like any urgent care center, a front line station where patients come for minor illnesses, injury, referral... Where You'll Find Us is a list of the more popular Venues that we supply Medical services for on a regular basics. When You're Not At A Show... the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics may be able to help you with your Medical & Substance Abuse needs. Concert Tips and Tricks... Where are you going to meet your friends after the show? Reading these tips before going to the show will prepare you to have a good time and not become a Rock Medicine Client. FAQ's Frequently Asked Questions about Rock Medicine. How to became a Volunteer and many more questions answered. Meet The Director of Rock Medicine, Raz with over 25 years in the Rock n' Roll biz and now over 10 years as the Director with over 400 Volunteers waiting to be assigned to the next show. Where We've Been... Shows By Year 1987 - 2002 Over 3000 Shows listed by date with 1300 different Bands and many different Venues like, The Fillmore, Warfield, Henry J. Kaiser, and over 100 different Venues. Articles & More Stories ANALYSIS OF "ROCK MEDICINE", 1973-1977 The rock concert is the environment for one of the most popular and spectacular 'rituals of controlled drug use, For some persons, however, such public drug use elicits "bad trips" . This paper outlines the nature of adverse reactions recorded by the Rock Medicine Section of the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic at San Francisco area rock concerts between 1973 and 1977. We Built This Clinic on Rock n' Roll Without Bill Graham, the clinic would not have survived its fragile infancy in the Summer of Love. Soon after we opened in June 1967, without any government support, Bill came up to see me at the clinic... - Sound medicine By Rachel Leibrock -- Bee Staff Writer At Sunday's concert, a group of some 40 volunteers -- doctors, nurses and physician assistants, most of them from the Sacramento area -- were on hand in a small space tucked next to the amphitheater's security office to care for myriad minor cuts and scrapes, sprains, fractures and a mysterious-sounding malady known as "crowd syndrome." Rock Medicine's first Website 1995 http://www.hooked.net/users/hafci/rockmed/index.html In 2001 www.RockMed.org Buprenorphine (HAFCi-SATS)		Photo Index First Rock Med Show Volunteers Mostly black & white photos of the first Rock Medicine Volunteers Staff at the first few shows in 1973. Photos of Past Directors of Rock Medicine with names like Skeez, Champ, Skip & Raz... These photos cover over 30 years. Dr Skip Gay's 30 Years of Rock Med Slide Show Rock Med Helping Since 1973 Mountain Aire 2002 Photos By Stacy Over 30 photos of the Rock Med Crew in Tie-Dyes at a 3 day event. Treating many cases of sun burn & stubbed toes... Rock Med Softball game June 2002 The Sacramento Rock Medicine Crew... Sierra Nevada World Music Festival 2002 & Vann's Warped Tour 2002 Photos by Rock Med Volunteer & Professional Masseur EMT Barney. Rock Medicine, Let them Eat Cake With most Volunteers working over 20-30 shows a year the Bands and Friends of Rock Medicine serve a lot of cake, always trying to out decorate the last cake. Photos from the 2001 Hog Farm Pig Nik Every year since the first Hog Farm Pig-Nik in 1992 Rock Medicine has been there... See 60 photos by Mike the Sacramento show manager. Santa on the Bull Another classic photo of the Rock Medicine Webmaster riding the Bull at the Christmas party... Rock Medicine Holiday Card 2002 and Photos of Rock Med with Santa at past Christmas parties.. The Blue Coat Reunion It is time to retrace the past and entangle ourselves in our merry roots... let us gather, reminisce, eat and drink... in other words it is time to catch up again. To honor the Man who brought us all together... Old timers re-union for those who started before 1986... Rock Medicine Flags & Logos Please, Sign Our Guest Book More Rock Medicine Stories... More Rock Medicine Stories & Photos Free Clinic & Rock Medicine Logos -o- - DVD Label

Health Care Is A Right, Not A Privilege