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Barrier Free Service : Use of ear acupuncture for treatment and rehabilitation of drug users at NISD

National Institute of Social Defence (NISD), Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India invited Nada India team to conduct a mini workshop on Barrier Free Service : Use of ear acupuncture for treatment and rehabilitation of drug users. NISD has been organising  3 Months Certificate Course on De-addiction Counselling and Rehabilitation  from 12th March to 10th June 2012 at NISD R.K.Puram , New Delhi.


Dr.Uttam Singh conducting a training cum acudetox session 


Dr.Uttam skilled hand in action with NADA acupuncture for well being  




This training course is to enhance the capacity of service providers (Project Incharge/Counsellors/Social Workers from different parts of India like Kerala,Chattisgarh, Zharkhand,U.P.Nagaland, Shilong,Karnataka,Maharashtra,Tamilnadu, Mizoram,Maharashtra ,Haryana, Rajasthan and Delhi ) of NGOs working in the area of drug demand reduction in order to enable them to implement the program in efficient and effective manner.
 The most of the trainees wanted to get the ADS 70 hours training. 

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