Addiction Counseling

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe alcohol as a drug including how it is produced, its pharmacology, the physiological and behavioral effects on the body, related health benefits, and health problems such as chronic alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe caffeine as a drug including sources, effects of caffeine on the body, health consequences of caffeine consumption, and medical uses.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and common examples of stimulants including common treatment strategies for stimulant abuse problems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe drug use today in the United States including current patterns, risk and protective factors, impact on drug use and society, ways of measurement by health professionals, and current challenges.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and common examples of depressants and inhalants including common treatment strategies for depressant and inhalant abuse problems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to identify drug laws and regulation including challenges with enforcement.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to explain nervous system anatomy and physiology as it relates to drugs entering and leaving the body, drug psychological and physiological influences on the body, and drug action.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and common examples of hallucinogens including common treatment strategies for hallucinogen abuse problems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and issues related to marijuana and hashish.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe nicotine and tobacco as drugs including how they affect the body and patterns of use in the United States and globally.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and common examples of opiates including common treatment strategies for opiates abuse problems.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, common examples, and issues related to performance-enhancing drugs including how these drugs are tested in sports.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe the actions, uses, and common examples of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe major substance use and abuse prevention strategies for individuals, families, schools, workplaces, and communities.

This badge demonstrates the earner's ability to describe major substance abuse treatment strategies including challenges and factors that influence success and failure.