Addiction 101 Learning Module

A .5-Hour Self-Paced On-Demand Learning Module

On-Demand

Presentation: What causes someone to become addicted? This course will explore the urge to use and how drug use becomes compulsive despite causing harm. This harm affects the user’s mental, physical, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. This course will explore how substances affect the brain, what that does to the tolerance levels of drug users, and how, just like with other chronic diseases, reoccurrence is common. Having a basic understanding about how addiction affects those around you will assist you with utilizing non-stigmatizing language and empathizing with them.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. C1: Define what addiction is;
2. C2: Describe how drugs affect the brain;
3. C3: Assess how reoccurrence is part of the recovery process of addiction;
4. C4: Describe how stigmatizing language affects those in recovery; and
5. C5: List the stages of change.

Contributors include those listed in the module, as well as Corissa Webb Instructional Design, Cheryle Pacapelli, Heather Smith and Department of Health and Human Services.

.5 Contact Hours Available

CRSW Performance Domains: 3-4
LADC/MLADC Categories of Competence: 5 & 13-17
Certified Prevention Specialist Domains: 6
NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC & Psychologist  *Not Available

NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

This training is financed under a contract with the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services, with funds provided in part by the State of NH and/or such funding sources as were available or required, e.g., the United States Department of Health and Human Services.