Join Together offers free online learning opportunities for addiction treatment counselors. Continuing education units (CEUs) are available with the offerings listed below. A downloadable certificate is immediately issued at the successful completion of an online posttest. For more information, please read the credit designation and requirements for each course.

The Role of Medication in Substance Use Treatment

NEW! This free online course for addiction treatment counselors presents an explanation of the physical, social and psychological environment that contributes to alcohol and drug misuse, focusing on brain chemistry and treating biological disorders with medication, followed by a series of video vignettes that address the concerns of patients to the possible courses of treatment.

Helping You to Help Your Patients: An Introduction to Medication for Alcohol Dependence

A free online course to help addiction treatment counselors understand how medications work with the brain mechanisms involved in alcohol dependence, and how medications can be part of a comprehensive treatment program that helps patients regain control over their lives.

Treatment Practitioner's Research Bulletin (TPRB)

A free e-publication written by practitioners for practitioners designed to identify important new addiction-related research, summarize research results, and provide focused commentary that treatment practitioners can use to improve their practices.

Join Together/The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University is a NAADAC (The Association of Addiction Professionals) Approved Education Provider (# 454) and has met the nationally approved standards of education for alcoholism and drug abuse counselors. CEUs provided through Join Together will be accepted toward national credentialing by the NAADAC Certification Commission and also by many of the individual state licensing/certification bodies.