Lindsay Lohan's Treatment Facility Has NO TREATMENT LICENSE
Tidwell adds, "It is a violation of the State law to operate a residential drug and alcohol treatment facility in California without a license. Morningside does not have a license." UPDATE. 12:50 PM PT — Morningside Recovery has just released a …
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LiLo goes to rehab, but trouble follows
According to a California state official, the Morningside Recovery center in Newport Beach — where Lohan made a last-minute decision to complete her 90-day stint — is not licensed to provide residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment. "If a 24-hour …
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Question by Dan W: Can i become a councilor with a GED?
Well i am wondering if you can become a councilor for drug abuse if you only have a GED, because i was addicted to methamphetamine, marijuana, inhalants, and alcohol for about five years of my life and luckily i got myself help and have been clean for about 2 years now and i would really like to help people overcome the demons i also faced trying to become clean, any help would be wonderful. Thanks for any feed back.

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Answer by jannsody
Congratulations on having almost two years of sobriety! With regard to becoming a substance abuse counselor, I believe that most with a Certified Addiction Counselor (CAC) have a master’s degree which takes about six years of college, if attending on a full-time basis. There are different levels of training for addictions counseling, but most jobs prefer those with a master’s degree.

Please also be aware that in order to get one’s certification as a CAC (or similar credentials), the person needs A LOT of clinical experience which includes having an actual patient caseload of those with addiction.

With regard to schooling, please AVOID those private overly priced For-profit schools such as kaplan, ashworth, capella, university of phoenix, devry, ITT tech, strayer, everest, brown mackie, american public university, keiser, argosy, penn foster, ashford, grand canyon, westwood, stratford career, pima medical institute, colorado tech and others as they are merely out to “make a profit” (** and their course credits usually do NOT transfer to other schools).

These consumer sites have a lot of negative posts by former students about those for-profit schools, and please heed the students’ warnings:

– http://www.ripoffreport.com

– http://www.pissedconsumer.com

– http://www.complaintsboard.com and can search.

Please instead consider the more affordable community college and/or public/state university as long as the program is accredited within the industry.

For U.S. colleges: http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ

This site is supposed to have more info re: (regarding) getting certified in addictions counseling: http://www.naadac.org/certification and can scroll down a bit.

General career info: http://www.bls.gov/oco and can search “counselors”, “social workers” or such.

Regarding inhalants or “huffing” (fumes or chemical vapors), my friend actually has a Brain Injury from inhalant use at the age of 12, now in her 30s.

Other risks of huffing include sight loss/blindness, heart/liver/kidney damage, seizures, limb spasms, hearing loss and even death, all of which can happen after the very FIRST time of use.

For anyone, this site has more info about the dangers of huffing – National Inhalant Prevention Coalition: http://www.inhalants.org

Wishing you continued recovery and wellness and that you continue making good, HEALTHY choices in life 🙂

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Into Action Drug Treatment Center Supports the March of Dimes Walk
Into Action Treatment is a small 24 bed coed Florida drug rehab center located in Boynton Beach. Into Action is a very unique center, which focuses on long term recovery for addicts and alcoholics. Most treatment centers in the industry are 28 days …
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Obamacare Will Provide Regular Citizens the Same Rehab Services Celebs Get
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Method uses drugs to cure disease of drug addiction
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Recovery Associates Drug Treatment Center Announces the Opening of Their …
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Judge orders 'Cookie Monster' back into drug treatment, reinstates probation
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know
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Judge limits Jackson siblings' attendance at wrongful death trial
AEG lawyer Marvin Putnam said in his opening statement Monday that Jackson family members will testify about their failed attempts to intervene with Michael Jackson's drug addiction and their lack of knowledge about what was happening. The defense …
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Lac Courte Oreilles Band struggling with widespread prescription drug abuse
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Cory Monteith, 'Glee' star, completes rehab for drug abuse after admitting …
The “Glee” star “voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction,” his rep told People in late March. Monteith, 30, and his supportive girlfriend Lea Michele, 29, were spotted at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday …
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BYU researchers design new pill bottle aimed at reducing drug abuse
“The fact that there isn't a solution to the drug overdose epidemic really drove us,” said Dallin Swiss, a mechanical engineering senior on the team, in a BYU press release. “This provides a missing piece to that national dilemma, and so it matters …
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