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Membership Benefits Table of Contents - Today's Webinar – Electronic Screen Addiction: Don’t Take My Ice Cream - Take the NAADAC Education and Professional Development Survey - CMS Announces New State Waiver Flexibilities - Support NERF This Giving Tuesday - NAADAC Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month - NAADAC 2018 Annual Conference: Call for Presentations - Exhibit at the 2018 Annual Conference - Adolescent SBIRT Curriculum Available – Apply Today! - New National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice - NAADAC Minority Fellowship Program For Addiction Counselors & Behavioral Health Professionals - NAADAC Career Center Events NAADAC WEBINAR SERIES Upcoming Webinars On Demand Webinars FAQS - Electronic Screen Addiction: Don't Take My Ice Cream Wed, 11/15/2017 3-4:00pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1 CE More Information Register Now! - Developmental Recovery – A Habilitation Model of Care Wed, 11/29/2017 3-4:00pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1 CE More Information Register Now! - Mindfulness in Recovery Wed, 12/06/2017 3-4:30pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1.5 CEs More Information Register Now! - Using Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) Wed, 12/20/2017 3-4:00pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Earn 1 CE More Information Register Now! NAADAC EVENTS - 2018 Annual Conference: Shoot for the Stars  Houston, TX  10/05/18-10/09/18 More Information PARTNER EVENTS - ASAM 49th Annual Conference 04/12/18-04/15/18 San Diego, CA More Information - National Council 2018 National Conference 04/23/18-04/25/18 Washington D.C. More Information - ACA Conference & Expo 2018 04/25/18-04/26/18 Atlanta, GA More Information - SAMHSA National Prevention Week 2018 05/13/18-05/19/18 More Information AFFILIATE EVENTS - 2018 SDAAPP Legislative Event  01/11/18 More Information - 2018 TAAP Annual Conference  08/16/18 - 08/18/18 More Information Promote Your Job Listing with NAADAC Need to fill a position in your agency or educational program? NAADAC's Career Center is the place to go. Your career ads will reach NAADAC members and a professional mailing list of 48,000+ professionals each week for three months. That is almost half of the 95,000 addiction counselors, educators and other addiction-focused health care professionals that the Department of Labor estimates work in the United States. Each career ad runs until its closing date or for three months. More Information Update Your NAADAC Profile Log into NAADAC to verify your contact information and preferences. Make sure you are taking advantage of everything NAADAC has to offer its members! Update Profile Post Your Event on NAADAC's Calendar NAADAC’s Calendar of Events is a marketing tool for the promotion of NAADAC, affiliate, and partner events and webinars. Posting events on the calendar is free and easy to do – just click “submit an event” and fill out the event submission form. Adding your event to the NAADAC calendar has many benefits: - Listed on NAADAC's main calendar - Searchable by State, Webinars, or National events - Listed on State's Affiliate webpage - Upload event logos and links - Automatically listed on NAADAC.org's front page Post Your Event Today November 15, 2017 Today's Webinar – Electronic Screen Addiction: Don’t Take My Ice Cream Wed, November 15, 2017 @ 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET (2 CT/1 MT/12 PT) Presented by Christine Migliara, LFMT, MAC, CAP, CASAC and Elizabeth Donnellan, MEd, ABD, FT, this presentation focuses on the correlation between impulsive and prolonged use of electronic screens and potential for developing substance addiction. Participants will explore the link between prolonged screen use, impulse control, family relationships, and risk of mental health/addiction development in children and teens. Treatment ideas will be practiced using application scenarios. Earn 1 CE (free for NAADAC members - join now!). [ More Information ] - [ Register Now ] Take the NAADAC Education and Professional Development Survey NAADAC is reaching out to NAADAC members and non-members to gain insight into your educational needs to improve its educational and professional development offerings.  Please take a few minutes to share your valuable thoughts and let us know what kind of training topics you would like to see in our free webinar series, face to face trainings, home studies, and other types of training!  Surveys will only take about 5-7 minutes to complete. They can be answered anonymously, or you can provide your contact information to be entered into a drawing to win one of the following prizes: one of two NAADAC Annual Conference Registrations ($600 value each); one of five signed copies of William White’s The History of Addiction Counseling in the United States (priceless); or one of four $25 Amazon gift cards. Help us better help you to help others! [ Take Survey ] Announcing NAADAC's Holiday Bookstore Sale! It's that time of year again! The time of trying to find the perfect gift for your friends, loved ones, colleagues, neighbors, and the mail carrier is upon us! This holiday season, NAADAC is making your holiday gift-buying a little bit easier on your wallet by offering 10% off any item at the NAADAC Bookstore until December 31st.  Visit the NAADAC Bookstore and find the perfect gift for the addiction professionals in your life. From William White's The History of Addiction Counseling in the United States, to SBIRT, MAT, co-occurring, and more independent study courses (worth NAADAC CEs!), the NAADAC Bookstore has something for everyone.  Enter HO10 at checkout to take advantage of this holiday discount. Sale ends December 31st. [ Visit the Bookstore ] Support NERF This Giving Tuesday Become a part of Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving, by making a donation to the NAADAC Education and Research Foundation (NERF). Thanks to all of you, NERF gave out 175 Annual Conference scholarships in 2017. Celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving and the widely recognized shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday reminds us to give back and be charitable to organizations that work to make a difference. Giving to NERF is tax-deductible. NERF is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization established to strengthen the health and vitality of individuals, families and communities through the advancement of the addiction profession by: Supporting the development of high-quality continuing education that addresses critical issues; Facilitating the application of new research and technology to the practice of preventing and treating addictive disorders Identifying and responding to policy and practice issues affecting addiction professionals and their clients; and Aiding in homeland security programs and preparations as they relate to the prevention and treatment of addictive disorders. Make your tax-deductible donation to NERF today in honor of Giving Tuesday. [ Donate Now ] NAADAC Celebrates Veterans and Military Families Month Veterans Day may have passed, but November is Veterans and Military Families Month! Here are a few resources and activities you can partake in: Check out the 2017 Veterans and Family Month Calendar for events, speeches, and commemorations near you. The Veterans Health Administration is asking for qualified addiction counselors to volunteer in local VA facilities through its “Care Enough to Share” program. If you or someone you know is a veteran with PTSD and substance use, the VA has facts and resources to help you. Need to find a substance use disorder (SUD) program? The VA can help. Even VA Medical Centers without a specific SUD Program do offer SUD Treatment. Pursue your chance to make a positive impact on Veterans’ lives—and on your career. Volunteer today. [ More Information ] NAADAC 2018 Annual Conference: Call for Presentations NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, invites you to submit a proposal to present at its 2018 Annual Conference: Shoot for the Starsin Houston, TX on October 5-9, 2018. NAADAC members and non-members are invited to submit presentation proposals for 1.5 hour breakout sessions. NAADAC encourages young investigators, researchers, and addiction and co-occurring professionals from diverse organizations and disciplines to submit. [ More Information ] - [ Submit Proposal ] Exhibit at the 2018 Annual Conference NAADAC invites you to exhibit at its 2018 Annual Conference at The Westin Galleria Houston in Houston, TX. Showcase your institution, product, or organization in front of industry thought leaders and over 1,000 addiction professionals from October 5-7. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis with limited booth space offered. Our exhibit hall has sold out the last three years in a row – don’t miss out! Sign up for your booth today! [ More Information ] - [ Exhibitor Flyer & Order Form ] Adolescent SBIRT Curriculum Available – Apply Today! Apply today to receive FREE access to the adolescent screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) curriculum for nursing, social work, and inter-professional education programs. The Adolescent SBIRT Curriculum designed by NORC at the University of Chicago and its partners, includes a Learner’s Guide, slide deck, an online simulation program, and many other resources to help educators seamlessly implement adolescent SBIRT training into their programs. The RFA is open to educators and trainers of associate, baccalaureate, master's and/or doctoral level students. Participants will receive FREE access to adolescent SBIRT training materials and to the online SBI with Adolescents simulation (access to the simulation ends 12/31/17). There are still spots available, but the program ends December 31, 2017. Apply today! [ More Information ] - [ Apply Now ]  New National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice NAADAC, in partnership with the Association for Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence, Inc. (ATTUD) and the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs (CTTTP) announces a new National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice. The National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice (NCTTP) was created to standardize and unify tobacco competencies, knowledge, and skills on a national level and provides national, unified recognition of professionals who obtain this prestigious certificate. By obtaining the NCTTP, tobacco treatment professionals are demonstrating to employers, third-party payers, and clients their advanced education in evidence-based tobacco competencies, skills, and practice. To apply for the certificate, candidates must provide evidence of specific education and experience, including successful completion of a CTTTP-accredited Tobacco Treatment Specialist training program and hours of tobacco treatment practice experience following completion of the training. In addition, candidates must be tobacco-free for a minimum of six months and must agree to adhere to the Tobacco Treatment Provider Code of Ethics. A full list of specific eligibility and application requirements can be found on the NCTTP web page. The initial test-exempt offering of this Certificate will be available until April 15, 2018. Applications postmarked after April 15, 2018 will require successful completion of an examination to be awarded the certificate. [ More Information ] - [ Eligibility Requirements ] - [ Apply Now ] NAADAC Minority Fellowship Program For Addiction Counselors & Behavioral Health Professionals (NMFP-AC & NMFP-BHP) Are you working towards a Master's degree concentrated in addiction and committed to working with underserved populations, including minority & LGBT populations and transition age youth (ages 16-25)? Apply today to the NAADAC Minority Fellowship Program for Addictions Counselors (NMFP-AC) or the NAADAC Minority Fellowship Program for Behavioral Health Professionals (NMFP-BHP). The NMFP-AC and NMFP-BHP each provide tuition stipends of up to $15,000, training, professional guidance, and mentoring to students enrolled in counseling or behavioral health Master's degree programs that include an addiction concentration. These federally-funded programs are administered by NAADAC in conjunction with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). [ More Information ] - [ FAQs ] NAADAC Career Center The NAADAC Career Center provides a variety of employment listings at no charge for addiction-focused professionals. If you are looking to find a new career, the NAADAC Career Center can help! Check out our latest listings! Substance Abuse Counselor at Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA Bilingual Chemical Dependency Counselor at LifeWorks NW in Portland, OR Residential Clinicians - Behavioral Health at WestBridge in Manchester, NH Clinicians - Substance Use Treatment at Maine Behavioral Healthcare in Springvale, ME Care Manager - Behavioral Health at WestBridge in Manchester, NH Clinical Supervisor of Substance Abuse at Samaritan Health Services in Lebanon, OR Peak Team Member - Transitions Residential Program/Substance Abuse Counselor at Peak Wellness Center in Cheyenne, WY Alumni Recovery Specialist at UCHealth in Aurora, CO Director, Clinical Addiction Services at Partnership for Drug-Free Kids in New York, NY Primary Therapist at Seabrook House in Bridgeton, NJ Counseling Manager at Harmony Foundation, Inc., in Estes Park, CO StepUP Program Director at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN [ All Career Center Listings ]

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"M  y husband, the father of my two children, died the day before our son’s 15th birthday. He was supposed to live for 12 months after his diagnosis of brain cancer, but he lived for 18 months and then died at home, on Oct. 14, 1998. “I don’t know if our son had been using drugs before his dad died, but he certainly was using a variety of drugs a year later, when his coaches and teachers met with me at a high school conference. That was when I met face to face with the reality that my son was willing to lie to me, to lie to me with every word, action and intention. “The next 10+ years were an escalating nightmare of ER visits, doctor and pharmacy bills, multiple rehab stints as an inpatient, and watching my son relapse, again and again, slowly killing himself. My constant companion was the knowledge that, just as I had buried his father, I would surely bury my son if he continued his path of self-destruction. “My constant companion was the knowledge that, just as I had buried his father, I would surely bury my son if he continued his path of self-destruction.” “I remarried several years after my son’s father died and my new husband was patient and wise enough to know better than to try to put himself between my son and me. We both hoped and worked for the best for my son, but we also feared the worst. “The worst came when my son was arrested at a pharmacy for altering a prescription for opioids and resisted arrest. After a scuffle, he was taken off to the county jail—a first for our family, on both sides, in all our combined history. I couldn’t bring myself to visit him, to have imprinted on my memory, for the rest of my days, the image of my son in an orange jumpsuit. “That was a very tough decision, but the first of a number of good decisions I made on my own behalf. My son had a court-appointed attorney who successfully argued for drug court and he stayed clean and sober for a whole year of drug tests and probation. He was recognized at drug court graduation for his intelligence and his diligence and received a lot of praise and admiration. Within a few days or weeks, he was using again. “One night, about a year later, he left my home and drove his car off my driveway and was fortunate to land in some trees. Over the next 24 hours, he and I spent countless hours on the phone with Narconon Louisiana and a drug rehab in Los Angeles. Narconon offered my son the chance to get off drugs and the Suboxone he’d been taking for over a year. The rehab in Los Angeles said he was, of course, welcome to stay on the Suboxone during treatment and indefinitely into his future. “I was desperate to keep my son alive and grateful he hadn’t killed himself or anyone else on the road, and I was willing, again, to pay for any treatment. I left the choice up to my son. Choose Narconon or the rehab in Los Angeles. Life without drugs, or life with Suboxone as a way to stay ’sober.’ The choice was completely up to him. “In the hours after the car crash, he and I stayed up all night.      We cried together and he told me about his dreams for his own future…. He told me how lost he felt, how little control he had over the hours and minutes of his days and nights.” “I’ll never truly know how my son came to the decision to choose Narconon over Los Angeles. In the hours after the car crash, he and I stayed up all night. We cried together and he told me about his dreams for his own future; how he envied his sister, her life with a new baby and the track her life was on. How he wanted that kind of life for himself. He told me how lost he felt, how little control he had over the hours and minutes of his days and nights. How ashamed he was that he had squandered his own potential, and his feelings of sorrow for disappointing me as well as the memory of his father. It was a heartfelt, gut-wrenching, totally draining night for both of us. “Something inside, some glimmer of the son I’d raised, believed in the message of Narconon Louisiana and the promise of a life without the perpetual need for ’replacement’ medication. My son chose Narconon. It was the more difficult choice at the time, but it was the choice that would mean my son would reclaim his own life and his future. “It’s been a journey, not a destination, just like the real thing—life.” “That was nearly eight years ago. In between was the work, the learning, the stumbling and having a wise mentor to help him get back up, more than once, in a safe environment, toward his freedom. It’s been a journey, not a destination, just like the real thing—life. “He’s not only paid off his old debts, he’s rebuilt his credit; bought and paid for his car; qualified for a mortgage and moved into a new home. And perhaps best of all, is in a loving relationship with a wonderful woman. My son is building the future HE is choosing, one that isn’t dictated by a life of addiction, but that is of his own making, by his own gifts and talents. A life that is full of promise and setbacks, joy and sorrow, love and loss. A life, like his father’s and mine, and all of us who suffer and get back up and try again, by our own wits and grit, that demands us to draw meaning from what we have to endure. “I don’t know where my son would be without Narconon Louisiana. Only he can say what led him to make the choice he did. Was it the human contact of long hours on the phone with a counselor who knew the path so well? Was it the empathy and compassion transmitted over the phone? Why did he choose to try one more time, but this time without Suboxone? What rang true for him? Only he can answer those questions, only he truly knows why. I can simply offer that he made the right choice. He chose Narconon Louisiana and he chose life. When all is said and done, when my days of thinking about life and all its mysteries have come to an end, I don’t really need to know any more than that.” —Joanne B., Narconon Graduate’s Mother   Read More

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Finding The Music The journey back from drug addiction is different for each of us.  No matter where we come from or how our addiction affected us we can all learn from each other. Read More...   Stepping Stones to Recovery  Life before Narconon was pretty much a big game to me, just not a survival one.  Life got to the point that I started to get amused by pain and I didn’t even care about anything anymore Read More...   Got My Life Back How does someone wind up addicted to drugs? The truth is each person’s descent into drug addiction is different. This amazing story shows us a different perspective on how a person becomes addicted to drugs. Read More...

What to Look for — and What to Avoid — when Searching for an Addiction Treatment Program The current opioid epidemic has unfortunately bred a slew of unethical businesses posing as legitimate addiction treatment for those struggling with drugs or alcohol. It’s unimaginable that there are those who would take advantage of families in crisis, but it’s a sad reality. The stigma of addiction and the fear of being judged will often have families wait until the last minute to reach out for help. They often feel terrified, alone and desperate to find help for their loved one. Some providers will strategically prey upon this fear to get a young person into their so-called treatment program. For many families, this predatory behavior will seem to be a gift, a kind and compassionate stranger who can answer all their prayers. You are your child’s best advocate for finding the right type of treatment.Even well-meaning healthcare professionals or other individuals in your life may inadvertently point you in the wrong direction simply because addiction treatment is not their area of expertise. Your family’s journey to recovery will be an ongoing learning process — and figuring out how to navigate the treatment system can be one of the biggest challenges. Do your research, ask for help, network with other parents, talk to addictions counselors and don’t be shy about asking any prospective providers a lot of questions. It’s recommended that you start with a trusted addictions counselor and not with an online search. Use the following as a quick reference guide to help form the questions you’ll ask and quickly eliminate any questionable providers from your list: Learn What to Look for in an Addiction Treatment Program Know the Red Flags that Indicate Unethical Treatment

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