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Addiction counselors stay on message in counteracting threats to profession
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32358
Subject(s) - addiction , value (mathematics) , task (project management) , work (physics) , addiction medicine , medical profession , psychology , medicine , public relations , nursing , medical education , psychiatry , political science , management , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , machine learning , economics
As they work doggedly to elevate the standing of the addiction counseling profession, the national and regional leaders of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals continue to encounter industry trends that, if unchecked, threaten to diminish the perceived value of counselors. From the proliferation of medication treatment delivered absent counseling to the embrace of peer support services that lawmakers often confuse with therapy, many of today's hot‐button issues in addiction services would appear to make the task of counselors' advocates that much harder.