Course Description

COMING SOON

This course provides a guide to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery.

The course will review the signs and symptoms of SUD and how the process of screening and assessment helps determine next steps and the required level of care. 

The course will define effective, clinically-proven treatment principles and the importance of providing an individualized, multi-faceted approach to treatment and continuum of care.

Participants will learn how the process of change can contribute to interrupting the addiction cycle and achieving recovery. The course will review the four dimensions and ten guiding principles of recovery and provide an understanding of relapse (or setback), the stages of relapse, and relapse prevention. Finally, the course will provide a guide to locating trusted resources and support.

DOWNLOAD Course Overview: SUD-TR ASWB ACE 4060.pdf

Counselor Skills Groups

Clinical Intake and Screening, Clinical Assessment, Counseling Services, Case Management, and Discharge and Continuing Care. 

Distance Learning

Hybrid Asynchronous Reading and Video-based Course.

Course Reviewer

Dean Babcock MSW, LCSW, LCAC received his Bachelor of Science degree in Public Affairs and Master of Social Work degree from Indiana University. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor and has spent his professional career working in health care and mental health care systems in the Indianapolis area.

Dean is a published author on numerous research publications and gives lectures and trainings both locally and nationally related to evidence-based practices in addiction treatment.

He has served on a wide variety of local and national committees, projects and boards, and enjoys helping the public understand the nature of addiction and its treatment. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions for the work he has done in helping the community in which he lives.

What You Will Learn

  • Identify: DSM-5 signs and symptoms of substance use disorder. ASAMs six dimensions of multidimensional assessment and explain their relation to ASAM’s level of care.

  • Discuss: How the process of change contributes to interrupting the addiction cycle and achieving recovery. ASAMs four levels of care and explain the difference between levels 1-4. What a relapse (or setback) is, what it means for treatment plans, and what the stages of relapse entail.

  • Explain: The importance of an individualized, multi-faceted approach to assessment, treatment, and recovery. The four dimensions of recovery and their alignment to the ten guiding principles of recovery.

  • Identify: Evidence-based treatment services and identify available resources and support.

Course CE Credits

In partnership with Purdue University College of Pharmacy, Office of Continuing Education, Overdose Lifeline has developed this online, self-paced course for Social Workers.

CE Accreditation Statement:

A Guide to Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (SUD-TR), Course #4060, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Purdue University College of Pharmacy Office of Continuing Education as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit.

ACE course approval period: 07/06/2023 - 07/06/2025.

Social workers completing this course receive 2.5 general continuing education credits.

Notice to providers of New Jersey SW Continuing Education:

ACE individual course approval meets the NJ Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for individual course approval pursuant to NJ Code 13:44G-6.4.16.

Participation in the ASWB ACE Course Approval Program requires that the provider abide by all the criteria set forth by New Jersey Administrative Code Title 13 Chapter 44 G Subchapter 6.

Notice to providers of New York SW Continuing Education:

New York does not accept ASWB ACE continuing education credits. New York-licensed social workers can complete the course for CE credit using the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ (ACCME) is accepted for many clinical continuing education requirements and many societies and credentialing bodies accept the AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ as an equivalent as long as the topic is relevant to the applicant’s field or discipline. VIEW CE COURSES

Additional Course Notes

  • This course provides 2.5 ASWB ACE continuing education credits - delivered upon 100% course completion, achievement of 80% (minimum) passing grade on the final exam, and completing the course ending survey.

  • The course may be accessed from a computer, tablet or mobile device. Internet access is required as are speakers for audio.

    The following web browsers are supported: Desktop - Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Edge. Note the course platform does not support Internet Explorer. Mobile - iOS Safari: 11 and up, Chrome, Samsung Internet.

  • The course will remain available in your account for six months - allowing you to complete the course at your own pace and return to the course later for review of key concepts.

  • All faculty, staff and reviewers involved in the planning, review or presentation of continuing education activities provided by Purdue University College of Pharmacy are required to disclose to the audience any commercial financial affiliations with ineligible companies related to the content of the presentation or enduring material. All planning committee members, writers, staff and reviewers of Overdose Lifeline and Purdue University have no relationships to disclose.