In the State of New Hampshire, in order for me to maintain my Master Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor lisensure, I am required-by-law to acquire an additional 30 credit hours of education specific to co-occurring mood disorders. The reason being, those who are licensed as Master Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselors are licensed to treat co-occurring mood [...]
The existential phenomenon of addiction has been around since the human organism first experienced pleasure. Although pleasure has remained a constant, the only changes have been the mediums used for pleasure. The use of alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, food, exercise, drawing, gardening, writing, reading and so on, are all pleasurable mediums that are open to function and dysfunction in terms of use and abuse.
As practitioner in the field of managing anger, domestic violence, and alcohol and drug abuse, whenever I meet with a prospective client I listen to what they say through my cognitive-social underlying orientation.
