Addiction Medicine: Closing the Gap between Science and Practice

8. Which one of the following types of professionals do you think is best qualified to provide
   addiction treatment services?
   72.6 Substance abuse counselors
   17.8 Social workers
   0.7 Nurses
   6.7 Psychologists
   1.5 Physicians
   0.7 Persons who are recovered addicts or recovering from addiction


9. 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.

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

10. 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 23.7 36.0 21.6 18.7
College degree (e.g., BA/BS) 12.9 19.4 40.3 27.3
Master’s degree (e.g.,
MA/MS/MPH/MSW)

18.8 23.2 31.9 26.1

Doctoral degree (e.g., PhD/DSW) 43.9 28.1 21.6 6.5
Medical degree (e.g., MD/DO) 41.7 24.5 20.1 13.7
Specific training in addiction treatment 0.7 0.7 7.9 90.6