Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

25. Which one of the following types of professionals do you think is best qualified to provide
    addiction treatment services?
    71.3 Substance abuse counselors
    16.3 Social workers
    1.3 Nurses
    7.5 Psychologists
    1.3 Physicians
    2.5 Persons who are recovered addicts or recovering from addiction


26. Do you think that only graduate-level clinicians/staff should provide addiction treatment services
    while non-graduate-level substance abuse counselors provide recovery support services OR do
    you think that non-graduate-level clinicians/staff should provide both addiction treatment services
    and recovery support services?

Note:

Graduate-level clinicians/staff refers to those with degrees/qualifications such as the following:

MD, PhD, MA, RN, NP.

Addiction treatment services refers to services such as the following: cognitive/behavioral

therapy, pharmacotherapy.

Recovery support services refers to services such as the following: connection to mutual support

programs; legal, housing, other social and health services; providing social support.

25.6 Only graduate-level professionals should provide the actual treatment, while counselors
provide recovery support services
74.4 Non-graduate-level clinicians/staff should provide actual treatment and recovery support
services

27. How important do you think it is for addiction treatment clinicians/staff to have each of the
    following qualifications?
    Not at all
    important

Slightly

important

Moderately

important

Very
important
Personal experience with addiction 38.6 28.9 25.3 7.2
College degree (e.g., BA/BS) 6.1 13.4 53.7 26.8
Master’s degree (e.g.,
MA/MS/MPH/MSW)

10.8 19.3 45.8 24.1

Doctoral degree (e.g., PhD/DSW) 40.7 33.3 22.2 3.7
Medical degree (e.g., MD/DO) 35.8 27.2 27.2 9.9
Specific training in addiction treatment 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0