Facing Addiction in America (7 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course takes a comprehensive look at substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery. The course includes a discussion of the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder (DSM-5), the affects of substance use on the brain, risk factors and protective factors, evidence-based treatment and prevention interventions, the substance use care continuum, strategies to reduce harm, and recovery. The reading includes Chapters 1-5 from Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Addiction, and Health.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice.
Course Reading: Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Addiction, and Health- Chapters 1-5
Author: The Office of the Surgeon General, The US Department of Health and Human Services
Find the reading at:
Chapter 1 Introduction https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamericachapter1.pdf
Chapter 2 Neurobiology https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamericachapter2.pdf
Chapter 3 Prevention https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamericachapter3.pdf
Chapter 4 Treatment https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamericachapter4.pdf
Chapter 5 Recovery https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamericachapter5.pdf
Full article https://www.freestatesocialwork.com/articles/addictioninamerica.pdf
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to substance use prevention, treatment, and recovery.
Learning Objectives: Identify DSM-5 criteria for a substance use disorder. Identify the ways in which substance use affects the brain. Identify risk and protective factors for substance use. Describe the prevention paradox. Describe the substance use care continuum. Identify strategies to reduce harm. Identify medication-assisted treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorders. Give an example of a behavioral therapy. Define the concept of recovery.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
This course includes 83 test questions. Your computer must be configured to accept cookies to save your answers if you log-out.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 7 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.