....In the 90’s we were asked to train a US doctor and nurse to
set up non-pharma hospital detox unit in 3 Saudi hospitals serving only the
royal family (in Riyadh, Dammam, and Jeddah).
Most of the protocol (12 steps, family
groups, etc.) was rejected after one year as not being culturally appropriate. NADA was used 10 years more, indeed it may be still being used. I have never heard any negative feedback from
Saudi. My colleague, Larry Taylor
trained many doctors from Musilm countries in Africa and the Middle
East over several years. Later
he trained NADA trainers in each hospital before returning to Arkansas.
They liked me to sign their certificates
with a special stamp. I conducted
a 2 hour case conference through the US embassy Each of the 20 doctors asked 2 questions. No one was skeptical about acupuncture; no one said it was from an alien culture.
Also in the 80’s or 90’s a psychiatrist Dr Hassan
Rezvani took a training at Lincoln. Several years Dr Rezvani called me from Iran and told
me that he had told a psychiatric conference about our training and had asked
to be trained by him. I said fine. Rezvani trained several groups of Iranian
psychiatrists (more actual psychiatrists than ever trained in the US). Rezvani asked the Iranian government more
than once wanting to set up a pilot program in Iran
while already retired in the US
and living in Florida. 2 years ago he sent me a list of 25 Iranian
psychiatrists for ADS certificates.
He was tall and impressive and spoke with great confidence ---proof
of Rezvani’s training skill. Bondaram
was a recovering person and is now deceased.
A friend from Toronto
visited him twice a decade ago....
Mike