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Take Action this Indigenous People’s Day
Today, we invite you to join us in intentionally celebrating Indigenous People’s Day, an action that should not be confined to this day, October 11th, but rather, something we should all strive to incorporate into our daily lives. We aim to use this statement to continue to uplift the stewards of the land we in the NADA office currently work from (Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribal Nations). We invite you to acknowledge the stewards of the land you currently reside on and to learn...
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Open Letter to our NADA Community: Community Care & COVID-19
Below is an email sent to our members on March 18, 2020. Please check links for ongoing information. Inspired by the principles of emergent strategy, we'll be continuously adapting in the coming weeks. To our beloved NADA community, Before you begin to read through...
Featured Resource: Beads and Seeds Outreach Tools
Beads and seeds are a simple technique to offer support for hard times. In our ‘Beads and Seeds’ Resources section, we have a compilation of articles and research on beads and seeds.
Reflecting on 2019, Growing into 2020
Whether that is your workplace, your family & friends or your school. NADA belongs everywhere where people gather to seek solace, friendship and community. It is our privilege to continue to serve you.
NADA recognized as organization of the year!
NADA Giving Day
NADA Tour Wraps Up: Reflection on the 2017-18 Local Meetings
This article comes from Guidepoints News from NADA Fall/Winter 2018 Issue. Sign-up to receive Guidepoints in your inbox quarterly. The Guidepoints newsletter is the only publication devoted to the sharing and dissemination of our NADA work on an...
2019 Video Contest Winner
Acuwellness on Campus
 Watch how this simple, affordable and community building treatment is supporting college students.
Veterans Integrative Pain Center PBS Video
 Brilliant 3-min coverage of NADA at the Veterans Integrative Pain Center at the McGuire VA Medical Center. The NADA section of the video starts at 8:24. Nice interview, Mark Farrington! (Mark Farrington is a NADA trainer in...
Help us reach our $10,000 goal this year!
Our collective NADA work is expanding. At least it feels that way from where we sit at the NADA office in Laramie. More members are connecting with each other, more members are getting involved in outreach and advocacy to spread the Spirit of NADA to new...
A Criminal Justice Problem and a Public Health Crisis
Article from the Spring 2018 Guidepoints Newsletter. Complete newsletter available to NADA members.A Criminal Justice Problem and a Public Health Crisis by Chuck Pyle Editorial note: This report has been condensed due to space constraints. The full report is available...
Acupuncture helping addicts with recovery
As the man with the handful of tiny needles moved closer, Sarah Downs’ nervousness grew with his every step. She rocked back and forth in her plastic chair. She fidgeted. She bounced a leg.
She was there in the meeting room of the Pickaway Area Recovery Services (PARS) voluntarily, yet she still was unsure about what her friends had told her: that the acupuncture she was about to experience would ease the anxiety and fear that consumes her mind as she journeys through recovery from heroin and methamphetamine addictions. Article and Video by Holly Zachariah | The Columbus Dispatch
Reflections: Five Point NADA Group Acupuncture Pioneer Michael Smith, MD Dies
“Do you want to empower patients?”
The question was put to a small group of us who had chosen a breakout session with Michael O. Smith, MD, DAc, the founder of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) who died on December 24, 2017.
article by John Weeks | Intergrative Practicioner
NADA Protocol for Behavioral Health. Putting Tools in the Hands of Behavioral Health Providers: The Case for Auricular Detoxification Specialists
The NADA protocol has the potential to provide vast public health relief on issues currently challenging our world. This includes but is not limited to addiction, but also encompasses mental health, trauma, PTSD, chronic stress, and the symptoms associated with these conditions. Research Paper by Stuyt, Voyles and Bursac
Spotlight on ADS Success: Pain Clinic at a Veterans’ Hospital
For three years, Mark Farrington has provided NADA, qi-gong, mindfulness meditation, biofeedback and psychotherapy at The Veterans Integrative Pain Center at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. The focus of the clinic is training...
How Sleepmix Tea Came to Be
How Sleepmix Tea Came to Be by Ryan Bemis “Psychiatric patients don’t want super duper soup.†~ Michael O. Smith NADA co-founder and psychiatrist Michael O. Smith recently told program administrators at a workshop that...
The Lincoln Story: Excerpts from Fighting Drug Abuse with Acupuncture by Ellinor R. Mitchell
NADA, the organization, and the NADA 5-point protocol directly attribute one place and time as their origin. The birthplace of acudetox was originally known as the Acupuncture Clinic, Substance Abuse Division of the Department of Psychiatry of Lincoln Hospital; later...