Integrative ear acupuncture for the borderlands
“I was fascinated by the group atmosphere because, in the Hooper Detox program, every day the clients would get up in the morning, come together in a group and get ear acupuncture. A lot of them weren’t people who were comfortable sitting in a group or in silence, and there they were in this almost meditative state. As a counselor, I heard a lot about how much it helped them to get clean, to stay calm, to feel like themselves, to help with withdrawals.”
—Ryan Bemis, Director of Crossroads Acupuncture
Sun News (Interview with Zak Hanson)
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!
Gadson School District…UNM Hospitals…Indigenous Healthcare Programs in NM, Mexico and Guatemala…Community of Hope…Amador Recovery…FYI…Cd Juarez Mental Health System…RISE @ jails in eastern NM…Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla…Catholic Charities in Mexico…Qachuu Aloom…Garden’s Edge…Vision en Accion…Alianza Harm Reduction…Promotores Descalzos…Guatemalan Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (GUAMAP)…Cinco Toucanes, Nicaragua…Gadson School District…UNM Hospitals…Indigenous Healthcare Programs in NM, Mexico and Guatemala…Community of Hope…Amador Recovery…FYI…Cd Juarez Mental Health System…RISE @ jails in eastern NM…Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla…Catholic Charities in Mexico…Qachuu Aloom…Garden’s Edge…Vision en Accion…Alianza Harm Reduction…Promotores Descalzos…Guatemalan Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (GUAMAP)…Cinco Toucanes, Nicaragua…
Gadson School District…UNM Hospitals…Indigenous Healthcare Programs in NM, Mexico and Guatemala…Community of Hope…Amador Recovery…FYI…Cd Juarez Mental Health System…RISE @ jails in eastern NM…Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla…Catholic Charities in Mexico…Qachuu Aloom…Garden’s Edge…Vision en Accion…Alianza Harm Reduction…Promotores Descalzos…Guatemalan Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (GUAMAP)…Cinco Toucanes, Nicaragua…Gadson School District…UNM Hospitals…Indigenous Healthcare Programs in NM, Mexico and Guatemala…Community of Hope…Amador Recovery…FYI…Cd Juarez Mental Health System…RISE @ jails in eastern NM…Holy Cross Retreat Center in Mesilla…Catholic Charities in Mexico…Qachuu Aloom…Garden’s Edge…Vision en Accion…Alianza Harm Reduction…Promotores Descalzos…Guatemalan Acupuncture and Medical Aid Project (GUAMAP)…Cinco Toucanes, Nicaragua…
Our partners over the past 2 decades: Everyday heroes in the borderlands and in Latin America building resilience using tiny needles.
“Everyone needs access to activities like this to rest from society, yet connect with community.”
—Ryan Bemis, Latina Lista
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.
borderlands community acupuncture Directory
Catholic Diocese of Cd Juarez
Mental Health Clinics
Hours
Call to Find a Clinic Near You
Contact
Nancy +1-656-330-2293
Cd Juarez, Mexico
“The number of NADA practitioners in Juarez, Mexico has multiplied from a handful to nearly a hundred in the last year alone. And it is almost entirely women who have taken up the steel, who have done over thirty-five thousand treatments, poked over 350,000 needles into ears, well on their way to unleashing a million tiny daggers on the city's side-intelligencers. I will not say the needles empowered them, because that maybe suggests the women in this city weren’t always the ones keeping it afloat.”
—Joshua Wheeler, Acid West: A Million Tiny Daggers
Las Cruces, NM
Crossroads Acupuncture
Our central clinic in Cruces 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 veterans, 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.
Next free group session:
570 W Griggs
FRI Dec 19th 8-11am
Or book a 1/1 session with Dr. Bemis
575-312-6569
Sol Counseling and Wellness
2540 El Paseo Rd Suite B
Las Cruces , NM
By appointment
Phone
Bri (575) 201-3111
Amador Health Center
@ Community of Hope
999 W. Amador
Las Cruces , NM
Hours
Call for appointment
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
What is NADA acudetox?
NADA stands for National Acupuncture Detoxification Association. 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.