Total CE Credit Hours: 1.25
Course Info URL: http://www.addictioncounselorce.com/courses/102713
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About the Course:
This course discusses cocaine, hallucinogens and dissociative drugs. It includes: what is cocaine, the scope of cocaine use in the US, how cocaine is used, how cocaine produces its effects, some ways cocaine changes the brain, the short-term and long-erm effects of cocaine, why cocaine users are at risk of HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, the effects of maternal cocaine use, how cocaine addiction is treated, how cutting edge science is helping us to better understand addiction, what hallucinogens and dissociative drugs are, classic hallucinogens, common hallucinogens and dissociative drugs, dissociative drugs, how widespread hallucinogen and dissociative drug use is, why people take hallucinogenic and dissociative drugs, how hallucinogens affect the brain and body, how hallucinogens work, common effects hallucinogens and dissociative have on the brain and body, and short-term and long-term effects of dissociative drugs.
Publication Date:
May 2016 and February 2015Course Material Authors
Course Creator
Recommended For:
Counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.
Course Objectives:
Recognize some ways cocaine changes the brain and associated risks of mixing it with other drugs.
Identify the effective treatment and promising research for cocaine misuse.
Summarize the long term effects of hallucinogens and dissociative drugs.
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American Academy of Health Care Providers in the Addictive Disorders (AAHCPAD)
1.25 credit hour
American Psychological Association (APA)
1.25 credit hour
CE Learning Systems is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
1.25 credit hour
CE Learning Systems, LLC, provider #1020, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE Learning Systems, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2/23/2019 – 2/23/2022. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credit(s).
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
1.25 credit hour
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Cocaine
Hallucinogens and Dissociative Drugs
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