From the beginNing |
Where NADA IS now |
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For centuries, various cultures around the world have placed needles in precise locations on the body to relieve pain and treat disease. Only since 1972, when a Hong Kong neurosurgeon, H.L. Wen, M.D., discovered that acupuncture could alleviate the symptoms of opiate withdrawal, has this method been used for detoxification and relapse prevention.
In 1974, at Lincoln Hospital, an outpatient facility in NYC’s South Bronx, the NADA 5 point protocol was created through community trial and error. By the mid-1980’s, the success of this unique procedure had become so evident that treatment facilities across the US began incorporating it into their substance abuse programming. 
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More than 1,000 programs in the US and Canada now use NADA through the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association’s diligent work promoting education & training clinicians in NADA. It is being used as an aid for stress reduction in people with psychiatric struggles, sickle cell, and HIV.
NADA has trained more than 25,000 clinicians in North America and worldwide. The protocol has since become understood to have less of one specific effect on addictions or any single behavioral health condition, rather as a stress reduction and calming technique beneficial to all. Globally it is utilized as a capacity building tool for disaster relief, refugee and international health care. 
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