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Join NADA in a Week of Action to Support the Compassionate Release of Mutulu Shakur
Take action today. Mutulu Shakur has been imprisoned for 35 years. It’s time he comes home.
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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 | Register for the Next 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...
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...
Looking Forward: NADA’s Role in Genuine Social Change
Looking Forward: NADA's Role in Genuine Social Change In February 2021 NADA hosted a special open NADA Membership Café featuring guest speaker Walter Bosque (NADA Trainer & Lincoln Detox Collective Member). VIEW THE RECORDING https://youtu.be/IIJLRFL4xzw Event...
NADA Launches Youth Committee
At our February 2021 Membership Café Looking Forward: NADA's Role in Genuine Social Change NADA launched a Youth Committee to ensure we are bringing this people's medicine to the next generation. Under 35? We invite you to get involved. Fill out this Youth Committee...
New Guidepoints News from NADA Issue Published (Fall/Winter 2020)
Sign-up to receive ‘Guidepoints News from NADA’ in your inbox quarterly. Stories in the Fall/Winter 2020 Issue: NADA Philippines Health Mission to Bicol Disaster Area During the Pandemic Danish Hospice Integrates NADA in Its Entire Program Ajandok Eöry, friend,...
Membership Spotlight: Sharon Jennings-Rojas
A daughter of Jamaican immigrants, I grew up in several places. Born in Denmark Hill, London, my parents trained as health care professionals (my mother, a registered nurse; and my father, a hospital administrator). My later years were spent living in the South Bronx, Queens, and going to church in Brooklyn. I’ve spent considerable time in the Caribbean and Africa where the connection between health care and wellness (body, mind and soul) is deeply rooted to faith based systems and spiritual practices. This is why my work with the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center really spoke to me and paved the path of community health and wellness that I continue to advocate for.