Integrative ear acupuncture for the borderlands
we bring acupuncture and acudetox to jails, schools, psychiatric / Behavioral healthcare, shelters, and addictions recovery.
PARTNERING WITH…
Crossroads Acupuncture’s outreach teams work with local community projects and integrative medicine clinics. We can train you how to offer acudetox. Our mobile clinics can also come to your program to offer acupuncture for your team and for your clients!Peace down acupuncture
11/3 7pm @ Dwell Yoga 424 N Main
11/5 8pm @ Downtown Plaza Las Cruces
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At this election time in the USA, anxiety is high, and the growing fear of violence in our world can leave us isolated from community. Crossroads Acupuncture in partnership with the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership and Dwell Yoga will offer this free community acupuncture for you to find your refuge amidst election anxiety, and for people to come together as a community and bring our focus of peace within, and around the world.
No matter who you vote for, we will offer this space free, no cost, for anyone that votes, plans to vote, or would like to vote. Acupuncture is just optional, and you are welcome to come sit alongside us without receiving the acupuncture as well. Treatments will be offered by Dr. Ryan Bemis alongside local acudetox community workers. We will offer a gentle placement of tiny needles around points on the body to help you find your inner calm and your grounded self, so you can leave more present during these chaotic times.
(NOTES: If you don’t want the acupuncture, you can still come and join us for the meditation. If you cannot vote, but would like to vote, you are welcome as well!).
Offering these new & online workshops, Crossroads Acupuncture will celebrate World Mental Health Day during the month of October by offering this free for anyone who has struggled with mental illness. You’ll learn how to allow your body to literally shake off past stories, trauma and help you rediscover yourself anew.
Facilitated by Ryan Bemis and Amabel Narvaez, you’ll receive step-by-step instructions in Trauma and Tension Release Exercises (TRE) and other somatic release techniques. Most people experience deep relaxation, feeling grounded, and increased mental clarity. You’ll leave these workshops with the ability to safely co-regulate your nervous system through movement, breathing, and stillness on your own, on a regular basis.
These online workshops offer you a trauma-informed, non judgemental space to take a step towards transcending the stigma of mental illness and taking a step towards mental wellness. You may log in anonymously if you choose to do so, or keep your camera turned off during the exercises.
OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Why?
NADA Ear acupuncture (Acudetox) is a proven method to assist with addictions prevention and recovery including smoking cessation. We serve refugees, prisons, homeless shelters, recovery programs and schools.
What it’s like
The sessions last 30-45 minutes and are very relaxing while at the same time provide a quick and easy treatment to slide into a hectic schedule. We can set up a group anywhere where people can sit.
Accessible
We have clinics throughout the border region are carried on by community centers and behavioral health programs. We can bring acupuncture to your community project, and help you create an integrative medicine program.
Get trained in acudetox
We train community workers in the NADA ear acupuncture protocol, with support for licensure/certification available in many US states and Canada, as well as internationally.
This training is a first step for volunteering and being a part of our network of clinics
borderlands community acupuncture Directory
Cd Juarez, Mexico
Catholic Diocese of Cd Juarez
Mental Health Clinics
Refugee Shelters throughout the city
Hours
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Contact
Nancy +1-656-330-2293
Las Cruces, NM
Crossroads Acupuncture
Crossroads Acupuncture is based out of Southwest Counseling / Border Area Mental Health in downtown, 100 W Griggs, Las Cruces, NM. This community center has acudetox services for people with addictions as well as full body acupuncture care for a variety of conditions. We have a special program for Medicare+Medicaid patients, and we are also contracted with VA community care to offer acudetox and acupuncture. Many commercial insurances cover acupuncture, as well. At Crossroads, we can support addiction recovery, pain medication withdrawal, as well as pain relief in addition to mental health treatment.
FYI Harm Reduction Prevention Department
1320 S. Solano Drive
Las Cruces , NM
Phone
(575) 556-1622
Amador Health Center
@ Community of Hope
999 W. Amador
Las Cruces , NM
Hours
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Phone
(575) 527-5482
Anthony, NM
Gadsden High School
6301 NM-28
Anthony , NM
Hours
Monday–Friday
Call to Schedule
Phone
(Jennifer)
(915)227-2274
(915)224-0263
Alamogordo
Clinical Counseling Services, LLC
1123 Vermont Ave
Alamogordo, NM 88310
Hours
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Contact
Mary 575-415-9270
Carrizozo
RISE RISE (Reach, Intervene, Support and Engage)
Serving Carrizozo, Truth or Consequences, and Deming, as part of Lincoln County and Sierra County Corrections and Drug Courts
Hours
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575-208-4045
What is NADA acudetox?
NADA stands for National Acupuncture Detoxification Association. This is a non-profit organization that was established to support the uptake of the ear acupuncture protocol that now bears its name.
The protocol itself was created back in the 1970s, by a psychiatrist named Michael Smith, at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx section of New York City. Smith, alongside other physicians and community activists, modified an ear protocol used in China for pain relief and opiate withdrawal to develop the NADA protocol.
The NADA model of care originally was designed to aid the detox process for heroin and methadone addicts. But over the past three decades, the five-point protocol has been adapted for use in a variety of community health settings. In addition to aiding addiction recovery, the NADA protocol is used to support smoking cessation, weight loss, and generalized stress and anxiety. Psychiatric programs use the NADA protocol to help people who are coming off medications.