Encouraging Community Wellness for Behavioral Health (Addiction,NCDs and Mental Health)

Dear Friends & Colleagues Greetings from Nada India … Nada India Foundation is pleased to announce the Training workshop on use of ear acupuncture as per NADA Protocol for addiction treatment and general well being to be held in South Delhi on Saturday 22 nd Jan .2011(10am-5pm). A visit to the peer led drug de-addiction program will be arranged on 23 rd January, Sunday (Optional). The workshop will be conducted by Dr. Michael O. Smith, Psychiatrist & Acupuncturist from New York and facilitated by Suneel Vatsyayan (A brief is attached) The workshop aims to facilitate a shared understanding of importance of barrier free services and skill in use ear acupuncture as an adjunct treatment at all stages of addiction treatment (pre admission, detoxification and rehabilitation and after care). This workshop also provides trainees with skills to use ear acupuncture (NADA Protocol three points) under general supervision of Dr. Michael O. Smith acupuncturist and psychiat

Hello friends. We are in the process of setting up NADA (National Acupuncture Detoxification Association) Philippines ! Nada protocol training is ongoing this October and hopefully by next year, NADA Philippines is born! We just finished our community clinic on 9th Oct 2010. We were able to give ear acupuncture treatments to more than 500 slum dwellers of Barangay Pansol , Quezon city where drug addiction is a major concern. This coming November trainees from Baler Quezon, Infanta Quezon will be trained and we shall expect to treat more than 500 community people again for three days. We use 10 needles per patient, 5 needles each ear. Please help by donating needles for our November community clinic. I will send you pictures of our Pansol community that ended yesterday. You can call and order from ACP/CARGBO Medical Supplies Inc. by calling 1-877-248-4539 and order from Mr. Kevin Liu . They will ask for my NADA number and/or identification number. Below: Ask for discount, tell

On 1st August 2010,Suneel and Pallavi of Nada India visited NADA (Norway) Retreat projects in Oslo and shared experiences with Ms.Rita the Founder of NADA Norway, Ms.Laila Member of Parliament of Norway,staff and Indian volunteers. National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) is a verdensomspende non-profit organization that offers courses for personnel in the health care sector, especially in substance abuse and psychiatry. Each country is free to choose their organsisasjonsform, but the basic theoretical knowledge and principles of the NADA must be followed in order to certify the NADA protocol. NADA Norway holds courses and certification in the NADA protocol and working with networking and capacity . You do not need medical background to take the NADA certificate .... for details visit http://www.nada-norge.no/

The Darjeeling Project officially started in 2009 in hills of northeastern India and continues to help young men with heroin addiction. It is a joint HARM reduction project for the prevention of HIV with the Indian Red Cross Society in Kurseong, India by focusing on substance abuse in the region. The Laura Louie Hope Projects has completed two trainings (spring and fall 2009) in the NADA ear acupuncture protocol for substance abuse, a well-recognized adjunctive therapy to substance abuse programs in North America. Both trainings successfully graduated nine peer counsellors in the NADA protocol, operating in five different clinic sites throughout the Darjeeling district. Acupuncture is exceptional for treating any level of the drug recovery process. It treats acute withdrawal symptoms, which can include intense cravings, flu-like symptoms, pain, and anxiety. It also can help immensely with the post-acute symptoms. It is used in relapse prevention and with the addition of acupunctur

Nada India has been running ear acupuncture based intervention program in Drug De-addiction Center Jail No.3 having inmates with drug and HIV/AIDS. Nada India also has trained doctors on duty in use of ear acupuncture. The pre-sterilized & disposable needles have been used as part of the program. Nada has been donating needles, doctor, counselor and social workers services as part of the barrier free services program. The results are encouraging and even inmates of Yog ward (Asharam) next to DAC shown interest in use of NADA ear acupuncture as it also helps in practice of meditation . The usually the feedback varied from relaxation, peace, deep sleep ,better concentration and no craving for tobacco and other substance. At times Jail staff and Doctors ask for treatment for general well being and relaxation. Nada India is planning to organize a workshop for Jail staff on stress management and use of NADA ear acupuncture. On the occasion of International Day against Drug abuse a

Dear Suneel ji. We are really grateful to NADA for their constant motivation and kind co-operation in lending a helping hand in detoxification of the drug users.The feedback regarding your training program will be sent to you soon, We expect to bring more good results with this association in coming future.Kindly send further mails to the below mentioned address for future correspondence. Regards, Dr. Uttam Singh SEnior Research Officer SPYM,Delhi. FEEDBACK AND EVALUATION OF TRAINING PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY NADA FOUNDATION AT DEADDICTION CENTRE- SPYM DELHI Comment no. 1: As does a soap cleans our body from dirt likewise acupuncture cleans our system and mind, I m feeling lighter as is all dirt from my mind got washed away – Anonymous. Comment No. 2: A quite different sensation is felt in lower limbs after inserting acupuncture needles initially, after 30-40 min my mind got static and I went in a sleeping mode, I hardly realized someone is near about me. Comment No. 3: I was very

By Jay Renaud 25th Annual NADA Conference in New Orleans, March 27, 2010 The following is a transcript of a plenary talk given by Jay Renaud, longstanding editor and publisher for Guidepoints: News from NADA, and former Office Manager for NADA. Jay is recovery activist and has worked with NADA for over 20 years. He retired in 2010 and left New Orleans conference attendees with this message. Spirituality in Treatment: NADA Keeps it Alive On this NADA’s 25th anniversary, my parting words are: Be careful what you pray for - - you might get it! For decades, pro-treatment advocates agitated for recognition that alcoholism and drug addiction are not due to moral failure but are the result of an involuntary disease process. Against the concept of addiction as some type of character flaw or symptom of an underlying psychiatric disorder, our aunts and uncles in the recovery movement since the beginning have stressed the bio-physical basis and large genetic component of addiction. However, so

Janet P. Paredes August 24, 2009 at 6:03am Hi Suneel, Philippine acupuncture bill has been passed. I just received my certification as a full body acupuncturist. Ear acupuncture shall later be submitted as an addendum to the bill. Doctors are included in this bill, although they have not much problem about practice. For the past years I order our needles from New york, Health Point, Lhasa, Asia Med. There are also middlemen selling here in the Philippines. I was also able to get donated needles from companies. Just recently we found a chinese store that sells needles here at a much lower price. I wil still visit the store to find out what sizes they have. Warm regards

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Acupuncture point do exist: Scientist Times of India Kolkatta, February 3, 2010