Should a Drug Counselor Also Be a Recovering Addict?
The problems of overcoming addiction are something only one who has overcome them can completely understand. Others can study addiction, work with addicts and even live with addicts and begin to see what the effects of addiction to drugs or alcohol are. But there is a vast difference between truly and fully knowing something and merely knowing about something. The addiction scholars can study for years and never completely understand the life of the addict .