2011 Conference Review

NADA Communities of Recovery and
Psychological First Aid

Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza

May 20-21, 2011 | 4445 Main St., Kansas City, Missouri 64111
(816) 531-3000

2011 NADA Conference Selected PowerPoint Presentations

This year our planned panel presentations clearly demonstrated the ever expanding applicability and versatility of the NADA ear acupuncture protocol. Below you can find a pdf version of some of the PowerPoint presentations from this years conference.

Plenary Session II - Military Needs Can Be Partially Fulfilled by Acupuncture

Plenary Session II - Philippines and NADA Treatment

Session IVC - NADA Advocacy

Session IVC - ADS Progress in Ohio

2011 NADA Conference Welcomed Robert Whitaker

At this year's conference in Kansas City on May 20-21, NADA met award-winning investigative journalist Robert Whitaker, who emerged in 2010 as a leading critic of the drug-based psychiatric health care paradigm. His keynote address, History, Science, and the Need for Alternative Forms of Psychiatric Care, was Friday morning, May 20.

Robert Whitaker has won numerous awards as a journalist covering medicine and science, including the George Polk Award for Medical Writing and a National Association for Science Writers’ Award for best magazine article. In 1998, he co-wrote a series on psychiatric research for the Boston Globe that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Click here to learn more about Whitaker.

At the NADA conference, Whitaker presented his research on iatrogenic mental illness, disability rates and the use of psychiatric medication. Other panelists included psychiatric clinicians who discussed the use of NADA methods to assist clients in tapering off of psychiatric medication in 2 breakout sessions on Friday, the Limits of Pharmaceuticals and the Far Greater Reach of Human Effort and NADA: An Alternative to Medication—Breaking Free From Medication Based Psychiatric Care.

2011 Conference CEUs

Pre-conference training: 30 CEUs
Administrators and Directors Workshop: 5 CEUs
2-day Conference: 15 CEUs

Approved by: the MSAPCB (Missouri Substance Abuse Professional Credentialing Board), NAADAC (National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors), California Acupuncture board, NCCAOM (National Certification Commision for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine) and NASW (National Association of Social Workers).