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

GUJARAT AFTER EARTHQUAKE By Dr. Sunil Mittal General Secretary Caring  Foundation & Mr. Suneel Vatsyayan Director Caring  Foundation about their experiences during their visit to  Ahmadabad  ,villages of Morbi and Maliya in  Gujarat   After Earthquake  26th January 2001 - India’s 52nd Republic Day We were seeing horrifying pictures on the TV and reading horrendous stories in the newspaper’s on the death and destruction on the January 26 th earthquake in Gujarat .   But, on our visit to Ahmedabad, the capital of the western Indian State and the worst affected Bhuj area, dawned on us that none of those pictures on TV or words in cold print could articulate the severity of the damage to human lives and property.   The skyscrapers in Ahmedabad and humble dwellings in the Bhuj area were reduced to piles of rubble big and small, reminded us of our own vulnerability in a city like New Delhi .   The overwhelming ...

  SOLIDARITY STATEMENT OF NADA PHILIPPINES AT THE 24 TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF  NADA USA  Denver, Colorado May 2-4, 2013 We feel deeply honored to be part of this event as we express our solidarity with NADA USA on this, their 24 th Annual Conference with the theme, “Fostering  Community Resilience and Healing”.   This theme resonates very much with the vision that NADA Philippines has taken up for itself, since its soft launching in October 2010.  We envision  “ a society wherein organized communities can provide their members with affordable and accessible treatment for physical and mental health conditions through ear acupuncture detoxification used in conjunction with other treatment modalities”.  In a country that is beleaguered with social problems affecting a huge number of people and communities, harnessing the inner strength of the people inside the communities can only be the best recourse for healing and recovery. ...

The holistic healthc are practitioners featured in Unimagined Bridges: Ear Acupuncture Treatment for Disaster Trauma utilize the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association’s (NADA) 5-point ear acupuncture protocol. This simple but effective protocol, commonly known as Acu Detox, has been successfully used for 35 years in addiction programs around the world. Unimagined Bridges chronicles how Acu Detox was used at New York’s ground zero and in storm-ravaged Louisiana to provide first responders and community members relief from anxiety, depression and inso mnia. T he events of 9/11 had a particular ripple effect in the acupuncture community. In the aftermath of the attacks, a flood of holistic health-care practitioners came forward to offer aid. Two initiatives that resulted from their efforts w ere the walk- in ear acupun ct u re clinics of St Vincent’s hospital in Manhattan, offered t hrough its Integrative Stress Management (ISM) program, and the Community Relief and Reb...

The department of Social Work, BPS Women University Khanpur, Sonepat Haryana invited chairman Nada India for a guest lecture on "Premarital counselling and family conflict" on 12.03.2011. Suneel Vatsyayan with Pehchaan project Director Ms.Pallavi and Dr.Uttam NADA ADS.Dr.Uttam conducted NADA ear acupuncture session with attending post graduate students of Social work for well being. Suneel Vatsyayan briefed how NADA three point ear acupuncture is close to social work . In the present day society, people find it hard to talk about help, issues related to addiction, trauma, domestic violence, mental health etc. We believe that talking about feelings, trauma asking for help is still a taboo and highly stigmatized and further biggest barrier in effective service delivery at grass root level.Mr.Vatsyayan further added that It gives us a chance to communicate.

In the present day society, people find it hard to talk about help, issues related to addiction, trauma, domestic violence, mental health etc. We believe that talking about feelings, trauma asking for help is still a taboo and highly stigmatized and further biggest barrier in effective service delivery at grass root level. Nada India promotes two basic approaches one is the use of ear acupuncture at all stages of addiction treatment & rehabilitation and peer based interventions. NADA protocol was developed and spearheaded as a worldwide movement by Dr. Michael O. Smith Psychiatrist and Acupuncturist from New York the Founder of National Acupuncture Detoxification Association. During his recent visit to Nada India , Dr. Michael O. Smith discussed the concept of NADA with Suneel Vatsyayan and shared his views on it .

A Two Days (30th &31St Oct 2009) Workshop on use of ear acupuncture in de-addiction treatment as per NADA Protocol was organized jointly by Nada India Foundation and Nirvan Foundation at Nirvan de-addiction center Ismyl Ganj Lucknow. Dr. Michael Smith, Psychiatrist & Director of Lincoln Recovery Centre New York developed this NADA three point addiction treatment protocol. Mr. Suneel Vatsyayan Chairman and Dr.Ajay Vats, NADA trainer & Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist (ADS) were the resource persons. Physicians, nurses, addiction counselors working in different de-addiction centers in the city participated in this training Programme. According to Mr.Dhapola, Director, Nirvan Foundation, law enforcement measures, preventive education and clinical treatment are not enough to deal with the problem of drug abuse,It needs a more holistic approach. He further added that It is also important that during the process of recovery, non-chemical alternatives like ear acupun...

By AMANDA GARDNER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, March 20th 2001, 2:20AM Thanks to a South Bronx doctor, the same techniques that help drug addicts in New York are aiding relief workers in Gujarat, the earthquake-ravaged region of western India. Years ago, Dr. Michael Smith, head of the recovery center at Lincoln Hospital and a pioneer in using acupuncture to treat addiction in the U.S., helped set up an acupuncture program for the Caring Foundation... Recently, Smith was back in New Delhi training more substance abuse workers when Suneel Vatsyayan, director of the foundation, asked him to meet with relief workers in Ahmedabad, the state capital of Gujarat, where thousands were killed Jan. 26. The devastation has been too much even for seasoned caregivers to handle. One 18-year-old girl insists that her last name is Bhukamp, which means "earthquake" in the local language. No one knows who she is or where she's from. One man suffers recurring headac...

Ear Acupuncture NADA Protocol: Different people experience differently at different times A Nada India presentation visit http://www.youtube.com/nadaindia

Dear Suneelji, It is useful, informative, convincing that it is applicable to post disaster of any kind. It can be combined with any of the systems of treatment. The only hitch I see in India is to get the authorization to practice it. In the film it seems that community workers were also trained to use it. And as a traditional and ancient method it was the local community elder wise person who practiced it, so what is the big song and dance about the simple understanding of ear anatomy and practice of pressure of needle being used by disaster response teams or first responders. Even local ANMs and local/traditional birth attendant who are being recognized as service providers can also be trained. I liked the fact that it induces sleeps. This method seems to give a lot of relief as in the testimony of the Fire man. Where do we try it? Who would oppose it? Do we lobby to make it into the training curriculum of the AMNs and TBA and the mental health nursing systems. Do we lobby with UNDP...