Title: Acknowledging the contributions of America's addiction professionals and their commitment to delivering evidence-based practice to individuals with substance use disorders through recognized standards of education, training, and competencies.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution expresses the support of the House of Representatives for recognized standards of education, training, and skills to deliver substance use disorder counseling and recognizes the addiction professionals who provide these services.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 364 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 364

 Acknowledging the contributions of America's addiction professionals 
     and their commitment to delivering evidence-based practice to 
 individuals with substance use disorders through recognized standards 
               of education, training, and competencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 2021

Mr. Joyce of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Trone, and Mr. 
Johnson of Ohio) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
                to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Acknowledging the contributions of America's addiction professionals 
     and their commitment to delivering evidence-based practice to 
 individuals with substance use disorders through recognized standards 
               of education, training, and competencies.

Whereas the addiction professional workforce represents more than 100,000 
        counselors, educators, and other addiction-focused health care 
        professionals;
Whereas addiction professionals specialize in prevention, intervention, 
        treatment, recovery support, and education;
Whereas addiction professionals work across a wide variety of settings including 
        outpatient care centers, mental health and substance use disorder 
        facilities, general medicine and surgical hospitals, psychiatric and 
        substance use disorder hospitals, private practices, and clinics, as 
        well as prisons, probation agencies, juvenile detention facilities, 
        halfway houses, detoxification centers, and more;
Whereas addiction professionals are addressing the full range of substance use 
        disorders in our communities across the prevention, intervention, 
        treatment, and recovery continuum, including in the face of the current 
        opioid crisis; and
Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the opioid and substance use 
        epidemics and additional Federal investments are needed to adequately 
        support the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders in 
        communities across the country: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives supports the delivery 
of evidence-based care for substance use disorder by acknowledging the 
contributions of addiction professionals and encourages that recognized 
credentials reflect the requisite knowledge, training, and competencies 
for delivering quality, effective substance use disorder counseling.
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