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Denver CO - May 2-4, 2013
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NADA Book Club: 12/2/2012
Join us for our second NADA book club this coming Sunday 12/2 at 4pm EST / 1pm PST. We are continuing our discussion of Alex Brumbaugh's book, Transformation and Recovery.
2013 Conference Video Contest!
{jcomments on}Enter to win free conference registration, free hotel accommodations, and $300 towards travel expenses for the 2013 NADA Conference in Denver, Colorado!
Submit a short video to NADA (no more than 3 minutes long) sharing your story or perspective on the conference theme, "Fostering Community Resilience and Healing" with the NADA protocol. The winning video will be featured at the conference banquet on Friday May 2, 2013 and be available for viewing on the NADA website.
For more information, go to the NADA 2013 conference page.
Join GoodSearch!
We'd like to celebrate a NADA rockstar - Yiara Blanco. She is in Connecticut, and to date {jcomments on}she has helped raise $19 through the search engine GoodSearch for NADA. This is half of the total amount raised, and there are currently 42 people registered with GoodSearch.
Every time you search the web, if you use GoodSearch, a penny will be donated to NADA. This is so easy!!!! Click here to register: www.goodsearch.com
From Yiara:
"My secret is no secret at all. I have made goodsearch my homepage at my work computer, home computer and even on my phone. So every time I have to search something, instead of google being my search page, I use GoodSearch.
"Also, I do a fair amount of shopping on-line, and the goodshop area makes it easy. I look for the store, click on shop now and they give a percentage of what I buy to NADA. I'm going to buy these things anyway, so I go through goodshop and money goes to a cause I support! Now with holidays coming around, this is going to increase even more as I look for flyers, compare prices and do some more on-line shopping. Our NADA colleagues could also use this time to jump on the Goodsearch wagon!
Join www.goodsearch.com!!!!
Dr. Michael Smith in Michigan 3/10/12
Special Seminar with Dr. Michael Smith, NADA founding chairperson
Saturday March 10, 2012
12:00-1:30pm
Great Lakes Grill Conference Room
817 E State Street (US 23)
Cheboygan, Michigan
Hear how using acupuncture can reduce cravings for alcohol and drugs, reduce stress and anxiety, as well as improve sleep, when used along with traditional counseling and self-help groups.
Cost: $15.00 - Includes lunch buffet / speech / acupuncture
To reserve a ticket: email Marilyn Miller at
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or call (231) 268-3381.
US Dep. Justice evaluation of evidence on NADA
The US Department of Justice BJA Drug Court Technical Assistance Project, together with the American University's School of Public Affairs in DC, have published a review of evidence regarding the use of NADA as an adjunct treatment within addictions programs.
Click here to download the full document:
Surviving genocide through NADA capacity building in Burma
"Life in the midst of genocide...
Compassion in action...
and the journey to a free mind"
Please consider donating and spreading the word about DARE through Global Giving so ongoing training and capacity building can allow other local refugee workers can learn the NADA skill: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/rebuild-flooded-burma-refugee-camp-recovery-centre/?rf=ggWidget
Thank you Pam Rogers for your commitment for this community, and congratulations in this 10 year anniversary of your program's birth. Their 2010 DARE Network Annual Report offers a glimpse at a NADA program that has been able to sustain itself throughout the years in a challenging context.
Right now we are requesting international affiliates to share program reports, pilot data and other outcome data to be assimilated and shared with the larger NADA community. If your NADA program, in the US or abroad, would like to share their data, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
BMJ editorial: The need for real world NADA research
In this September 2011 editorial in a British Medical Journal affiliate publication, David Cowan from London South Bank University dives head first into the methodological problems with laboratory-style research on NADA and proposes some simple ideas on how researchers can more effectively investigate how NADA works within a real world treatment program.
This is a must read for NADA members, acupuncture students and researchers.
Here is the link to the abstract:
http://aim.bmj.com/content/early/2011/03/20/aim.2010.003772.abstract
Interested in getting involved with NADA research teams?
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Michael Smith visits the Big Island
NADA trainer Megan Yarberry writes of her visit with Dr. Michael O. Smith on Hawaii on her blog through the Traditional Chinese Medical College of Hawaii where she is an Academic Dean and faculty member. Follow her blog as she returns to Kenya for more NADA trainings.
Free NADA Acupuncture to Quit Smoking
{jcomments on}The Austin Oriental Medicine Academy (AOMA) is offering free NADA treatments in Austin next week in honor of the Great American Smokeout which is on Thursday 11/17. Thank you for this great service, AOMA!
Get to know Katurah Bryant
Check out this article that was published in the first Connecticut Mental Health Center's online newsletter featuring 2012 conference co-chair, NADA trainer and Board treasurer, Katurah Bryant.
NADA is thrilled to go to New Haven, CT for the 2012 conference which will be held on the campus of Yale University. Online registration for the conference will be available starting 12/1/2011.
Caregivers Explore Acupuncture
Caregivers Explore Acupuncture—“Resilience is Inherited”!
Members of the Daughters & Sons Support Group at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in New York City met with Acupuncturist Wendy Henry (LAc, ACA) to learn about stress releasing techniques and experience acupuncture in a group setting. The mission of “Daughters & Sons” is to provide support for people whose parents... (Read more)
Advocacy for NADA Hungary
{jcomments on}At the NADA Euro conference in Dublin we learned that non-medical NADA specialists in Hungary are at risk of losing the ability to provide ear acupuncture treatments based on a law being drafted by an association of medical professionals. Participants of the NADA Euro conference drafted and signed an open letter to the Hungarian government which was published online on Oct 1 in one of the main Hungarian newspapers. Look for an update on the effect of this letter in the November issue of Guidepoints. Click on title to read more...
Controlled trial on NADA protocol for Seven Common Health Symptoms
North Carolina researchers found that the NADA protocol in addition to standard addictions care yielded statistically significant improvement in cravings, depression, anxiety, anger, body-aches, concentration and fatigue on a 10-point Likert scale, as published in Medical Acupuncture in August 2011. The trial was conducted at the Mecklenburg County Substance Abuse Services Center (SASC) in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Please stay tuned to Guidepoints: News from NADA for an upcoming feature series on the use of NADA within hospital, addictions as well as community wellness programs throughout North Carolina.
Copies of the study can be purchased through Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Spanish NADA literature and trainers needed
We are currently needing assistance from NADA Registered Trainers (RT's) and members with Bilingual English/Spanish skills.
1--If you are interested in volunteering to help with trainings in Latin American this coming year...
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2--If you have NADA training materials or educational materials translated into Spanish...
...email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Your help is greatly appreciated!
Directions, VA voting process: Acu for vets in crisis; Voting ends June 10
(Please share with all VA employees)
We just received specific directions on how VA employees can vote for expansion (see below), so please forward to all VA employees today so they have time to vote on the NADA proposal for veterans before this Friday, June 10.
Votes are needed before JUNE 10 among Veterans Affairs (VA) Employees to expand NADA acupuncture services for veterans in crisis as part of the VHA Employee Innovation Competition.
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Directions on how VA employees can vote (VOTE BEFORE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011):
[Use your VA e-mail address as the user name and the password you use to log into your computer. You will need to be on the VA network in order to access this page (VPN users, ensure you are connected).]
1. Go to https://vha.ideascale.com
2. Search for "acupuncture" or "1738" ;
when you find Idea # 1738...
3. Vote for "Idea # 1738 : Help when the veteran wants it: Increasing access to behavioral health care with acupuncture"
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Not a VA employee?
You can help spread the word by posting this blog on twitter or facebook, which just in the past week, has been a great tool in spreading the word around the country. A lot of VA employees have learned about this through facebook.
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Recently trained NADA health workers help with Missouri tornado disaster relief
The Salvation Army in Joplin, Missouri has been offering clothing, food and NADA group ear acupuncture services in a disaster relief tent. NADA services are provided in part by non-acupuncturist Acu Detox Specialists (ADSes) who had been trained at the recent NADA conference in May, 2011, just before the tornadoes swept through the midwest. Tornadoes touched down the last night of the conference, on May 21. We are gathering reports currently on the disaster response effort. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have reports to share on these disaster relief efforts.
Many thanks to the Missouri NADA community for hosting us in Kansas City, and making the NADA trainings possible for 30 some new ADSes, and for the programs that continue to support ADSes throughout the region. NADA sends our condolences and our thoughts to the people of Missouri and Kansas who have lost family and friends in recent weeks.
Please stay tuned to Guidepoints for more news on this. Here is the link to a story in the Hartford Courant on these efforts: http://articles.courant.com/2011-05-31/news/hc-campbell-joplin-recovery-0531-20110531_1_salvation-army-pork-tent
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