Nada India Foundation News update

Guidepoints News from NADA Jan/Feb 2015  Book Review: Social Work Education and  Practice Engagement, edited by Sanjai Bhatt  and Suresh Pathare  Social worker and Nada India Foundation (NIF) chairperson,  Suneel Vatsyayan , is a contributing author to a new volume on social work in India which has just been published by Shipra Publications. Vatsyayan’s chapter in this anthology considers the connection between social work and the NADA ear acupuncture treatment. Specifically, he describes how the NADA protocol is as an ideal social work intervention for drug and alcohol addiction. Vatsyayan trained first at the Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation Drug Treatment Centre in 2000 with NADA founder, Michael Smith, and social worker and past NADA president, Ruth Ackerman. He then continued his training at Lincoln Recovery Center in 2001. At the Navjyoti treatment center, he observed that the NADA protocol can help t...

A woman's ordeal only worsens after she protests against sexual harassment at the office Veenu Sandhu    April 4, 2015  Last Updated at 00:30 IST . ..It takes a lot for a woman to come out in the open about the trauma and fight for justice. "The society is telling her to 'let go'," says Suneel Vatsyayan, psychotherapist and director of Nada India Foundation that works on gender sensitisation. "She is broken inside. She is first negotiating that trauma at a personal level," he adds. "And when she finally does speak out, she is going against the stream." It is immensely difficult. Minutes after she lodged a complaint against a senior who had been behaving inappropriately with her for almost nine months, Niharika Tyagi was summoned by her department head. As she entered his office, he shouted at her: "Take your complaint back! Think about him; he has a wife and kids." Tyagi, though stunned, stood her ground, and the man was...

Nada India Foundation  and Budha Acupuncture Centre  are pleased to announce the  next NADA Ear Acupuncture (Acudetox Counselling)  workshop  as per NADA Protocol for addiction treatment and general well  being  will be  held at   Buddha Acupuncture Centre, 3261, Ram Nagar Shahdara, Delhi-32   on 25 Jan 2015 (10 AM-5 PM). The workshop will be conducted by Dr.Michael O.Smith psychiatrist & acupuncturist and Dr.Raj Kumar ,MBBS  , NADA,ADS.     NADA Protocol was developed by  Dr.Michael O.Smith  psychiatrist   and  facilitated  by Suneel Vatsyayan,Chairperson,Nada India. The workshop aims to facilitate a shared understanding of importance of barrier free services and skill in use ear acupuncture for protection and recovery as an adjunct treatment at all stages of addiction treatment (pre-admission, detoxification and rehabilitation and after care).  This workshop also pro...

New Delhi:  Indian Premier League's (IPL) Bangalore team, Royal Challengers is directly advertising an alcohol brand, says a Delhi based NGO which has complained against the team in a letter to the Information and Broadcasting Ministry. "The jersey worn by umpires, players and other team members of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) prominently displays the name of the liquor brand 'Royal Challenge' at the front and back of the jerseys. The jerseys also display the brand name of a vodka brand, on the right arm of the jerseys worn by players," says Monika Arora, Senior Director, HRIDAY in a letter to Manish Tewari. (Also read:  When Pervez Rasool taped over liquor logo on his Pune jersey ) HRIDAY - SHAN (Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth - Student Health Action Network) is a voluntary organisation engaged in advocacy related to non-communicable disease prevention through tobacco control, alcohol control, promotion of healthy diet and physic...

Nada India  program on non- communicable diseases and alcohol control has been featured in Niramaya NCD Newsletter    Volume 2,June 2014   This E-Newsletter is an initiative of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare  Government of India , World Health Organisation Country office for India , and is produced by Public Health Foundation of India .            Some excerpts are as follows Nada India works towards providing barrier-free alcohol treatment services across communities. Today, that vision is aligned with drug demand reduction strategy of the Government of India . Nada India has been reaching out to young people through a series of artistic events like painting competition and street theater, Pehchaan Radio Clubs and life skill training workshops. The biggest challenge identified is to protect young people exposed to alcohol consumption at homes by their parents,  portrayal of ...