NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, represents the professional interests of more than 100,000 addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals in the United States, Canada and abroad. NAADAC’s members are addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals, who specialize in addiction prevention, treatment, recovery support and education. An important part of the healthcare continuum, NAADAC members and its 47 state and international affiliates work to create healthier individuals, families and communities through prevention, intervention, quality treatment and recovery support.
Peer recovery services are becoming an integral part of the process for those seeking or already in recovery from substance use. There appears to be quite a bit of confusion as to what a peer recovery specialist (PRS), also called a recovery coach (RC), does exactly.
Conflict Resolution for Recovery (CRR) is a two-day therapeutic training that is skill-based and focused on the brain, including how the brain works in conflict and strategies to affect the quality of recovery in relationships.
What do individuals need to recover from addiction? In this training, we will first describe recovery capital as a predictor of long-term addiction recovery. Second, we will discuss how we characterize substance use disorder (SUD) as a chronic condition and lean into the complexity of the heterogeneity of SUD and recovery as a process of change.
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is widely accepted as the most effective form of treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder. MAT options have offered a pathway to recovery for many individuals who have found sustained, long-term recovery with the support of these medications and services. Despite this, MAT is often categorized as a form of harm reduction.
The NAADAC 2023 Northwest Regional Conference on Indigenous Peoples: Awareness, Knowledge, and Cultural Practices, hosted by NAADAC and its Northwest affiliates, is coming to Seattle, WA on Thursday, July 27 - Saturday, July 29, 2023!
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, and the Alaska Addiction Professionals Association (AAPA) are hosting the sixth annual Alaska Training Institute: Trauma, Resilience & Advanced Skills for Substance Use Disorders on April 17-18th, 2023, at the Anchorage Marriott Downtown in Anchorage, AK.
