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Nada India Turns 20
We have long admired the work of Nada India as a shining example of what NADA’s outreach is all about. Without question, Suneel and Pallavi Vatsyayan are the brilliant force and tireless energy making the great good of establishing the NADA protocol in India possible.NonCommunicable Diseases (NCDs) are the endemic challenge of modern bio-medicine and behavioral and mental healthcare.
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First NADA training clinic in Velika Gorica
by Olieta Horvat Kardoš This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA Spring 2021 Issue. Sign-up to receive Guidepoints in your inbox quartlery. The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the sharing and dissemination of our NADA work on an...
What does the Spirit of NADA mean to you?
This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA Spring 2021 Issue. Sign-up to receive Guidepoints in your inbox quartlery. The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the sharing and dissemination of our NADA work on an international scale. Become...
Support With NADA After Earthquake in Croatia
By Sara Bursać This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA Spring 2021 Issue. Sign-up to receive Guidepoints in your inbox quartlery. The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the sharing and dissemination of our NADA work on an...
New Guidepoints News from NADA Issue Published (Spring 2021)
The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the sharing and dissemination of our NADA work on an international scale. Become a member to opt-in for a print copy.
NADA Full Circle Event 2 Recording
In May 2021 NADA hosted the second event of its 2021 History Series. Johanna Fernández (The Young Lords: A Radical History) led a conversation with organizers Cleo Silvers and Vincente ‘Panama’ Alba. We concluded with small group discussion and sharing about the impact of learning about this history. Watch the recording.
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
Remembering John Ackerman
By Ruth Ackerman John Ackerman, an early practitioner and advocate of the NADA protocol, died August 2, 2020 after a long struggle with Lewy Body Dementia in Santa Barbara, California. Growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, John completed his undergraduate studies at the...
NADA Full Circle: Looking Back into the Future (Event 1 Recording)
Setting the Scene: How was Lincoln Detox Possible at Lincoln Hospital? In March 2021 NADA hosted the first event of its 2021 History Series. The event was moderated by Eana Meng and featured speakers Miguel "Mickey" Melendez (We Took the Streets) and Johanna Fernández...
Cherokee Healer Who Touched Many Lives: Arlo Orian Starr
By Phyllis Spears Some individuals come into our lives and change it, change us. We don’t even know or feel this change happening, it’s so subtle. We are encouraged, opened up, asked to take a leap of faith. So, in spite of our fear or struggle, we do it! And we begin...
Ajandok Eöry, friend, Hungarian NADA pioneer, doctor and scientist has died
By Ralph Raben Ralph Raben is an Ob/Gyn, acupuncturist, NADA trainer and a member of the NADA Germany board. Together with his friend and teacher, Michael Smith, Ajandok had the first Hungarian NADA training in 1985 in a prison-like treatment center for alcohol...
Statement of Solidarity with the AAPI Community
NADA stands in solidarity with the AAPI community to #StopAsianHate. We send our love and support to our AAPI members. The NADA protocol is a tool of community wellness and liberation, which is a practice rooted in traditional East Asian lineages. We are indebted to...
Remembering Victorina Molitas Ducat
By Joan Palaci Joan Palaci is an acudetox specialist in the Cordillera region of the Philippines. Victorina Molitas Ducat, Vicky or Doc Vicky to those who knew her, served the Cordillera region of the Philippines and other far-flung communities, first as a dentist and...
One Year Later: Revisiting Our COVID-19 Community Letter & 2020 Resources
Breath in, breathe out. Before you read this, give yourself an immune boost. uncross your feet, relax the shoulders, close your eyes, and tune into your breath. stay here for a few moments. or more than just a few – we all need that quiet space right now. We shared...
Danish Hospice Integrates NADA in Its Entire Program
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. Also NADA can bypass much of the verbal denial and resistance that might...
The People’s Detox available for viewing online
The People’s Detox, directed by Jenna Bliss, will be available for viewing from March 8th to April 18th 2021. In her 2018 film, Jenna Bliss uses documentary storytelling to explore the history of a revolutionary drug clinic in New York City in the 1970s that profoundly transformed contemporary notions of health and care.
Announcing a NADA History Series
NADA Full Circle: Looking Back Into the Future Watch the recording of the latest event. November 10, 2020 marked the 50th Anniversary of the takeover of Lincoln Hospital and founding of Lincoln Detox. Public attention on NADA’s early revolutionary years in 2020...
NADA Philippines Undertakes Health Mission to Bicol Disaster Area During the Pandemic
by Janet Pimentel Paredes president of NADA Philippines. Joann Codillo, Jan Mikael Delis and Edel Pantua, acu-detox specialists (ADSes) in the Philippines, organized a health mission last November 2020 in the Albay region. This area had been very much affected by...
Membership Spotlight: Tenisha Dandridge
Tenisha Dandridge (Sacramento, CA) Tenisha Dandridge, a Sacramento native, is an acupuncturist who is passionate about closing the racial health disparities gap in the United States. She is the owner/acupuncturist of Everyone's Place, the only mobile acupuncture...
Women’s History Month
March marks Women's History Month. Throughout this month, we'll be sharing resources that highlight and commemorate the many contributions of women to the past and present practice of the NADA protocol. We'll be collecting the resources on this page. Have a...
Organizational Spotlight: Black Acupuncturist Association
As part of Black History month, we're featuring an organization that NADA member Tenisha Dandridge founded: Black Acupuncturist Association (BAA). Dandridge serves as President of BAA, a national platform for Black acupuncturists in the United States and those who...