Continuing Education At Home
Social Worker
Addiction Recovery
Credits
8 CE credit hours training
Cost
$40.00
Source
Rachel Werner
Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
"Recovery" means: to bring back to a normal position or condition; to find or identify again; to save from loss and restore to usefulness. People become dependent on substance and alcohol for many different reasons. Their stories are all different, however, the emotional and physical effects are similar. The goals in treatment are to identify the source of the deeper issues and work through them to enable recovery.
This training will address the following stages of substance/alcohol usage: use, misuse, abuse, dependence and addiction. Additionally, interventions, counseling approaches and steps to recovery will be addressed.
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.
TRAINING
Course Description
"Recovery" means: to bring back to a normal position or condition; to find or identify again; to save from loss and restore to usefulness. People become dependent on substance and alcohol for many different reasons. Their stories are all different, however, the emotional and physical effects are similar. The goals in treatment are to identify the source of the deeper issues and work through them to enable recovery.
This training will address the following stages of substance/alcohol usage: use, misuse, abuse, dependence and addiction. Additionally, interventions, counseling approaches and steps to recovery will be addressed.
Addiction in the U.S.
- Current statistics show more than 50 million addicts
- An estimated 8-10% of the US population are sex addicts
- 17 million people are heavy drinkers
- 8 million people need treatment for illicit drug use
- 6 million people have serious gambling problems
- About 10 million people have eating disorders
- 70% of all violent crime, 90% of all poverty crime, 50% of homicides, 50% of traffic fatalities, 50% of fires and 33% of all traffic accidents are directly related to people abusing drugs & alcohol
- Many suicides are addiction related
- In 2004, drug addiction alone had an economic/societal cost of about 200 billion dollars
- Crime related costs drop by $8,600 per recovering addict
- Absenteeism from work decreases by 92%
- Tardiness to work decreases by 89%
- Problems with job supervisors decrease by 56%
- Mental Healthcare costs decrease
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