Articles Archives

Acupuncture Helps Programs More Than Patients

NADA Conference, May 1993 Michael 0. Smith, M.D., D.Ac. Director, Substance Abuse Division (Lincoln Hospital) Read the full presentation. ACUPUNCTURE HELPS PROGRAMS MORE THAN PATIENTS

Danish Hospice Integrates NADA in Its Entire Program

Articles, News

By Lars Wiinblad Ten years of experience in Danish hospices show that the NADA protocol helps with stress, anxiety, pain,and that it also reduces the need for medication in palliative care.Â Also NADA can bypass much of the verbal denial and resistance...

The Use of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Drug Addiction

Articles, Publications, Research, Resources Public

by Mutulu Shakur, D.Ac., and Michael Smith, M.D. American Journal of Acupuncture 1979 Abstract: A practical approach is presented in the use of acupuncture to treat drug addiction, allowing heroin or methadone addicts to detoxify more comfortably, more quickly, and...

NADA Changes the Dominant Paradigm (PDF Handout)

Advocacy, Articles, Michael Smith, News, Resources Members, Resources Public

by Michael O. Smith Download NADA Changes the Dominant Paradigm (PDF) Download the PDF handout or adapt the text yourself to a different format. Related Materials: Short video adaptation of NADA Changes the Dominant Paradigm View an adaptation of NADA Changes...

Harvard video series on ear acupuncture research starts in New Hampshire

Advocacy, Articles, History, News, Resources Members, Resources Public, Videos

Cambridge, MA by Elizabeth Ropp Harvard Universityâ€™s Asia Center just published a two part video series by scholar, Eana Meng, chronicling her global journey to uncover the roots and branches of ear acupuncture. Meng began her research in the fall...

Back to the Future: The National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) Protocol Persists as an Agent of Social Justice and Community Healing by the People and for the People

Advocacy, Articles, History, member portal, News, Publications, Resources Members, Resources Public

In a recent Op-Ed ‘Back to the Future: The National Acupuncture Detoxification Association’ in OAJCAM, NADA Trainers Claudia Voyles and Laura Cooley with NADA President Ken Carter make the case for the broad adoption of the NADA protocol by non-LAc...