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After a substance abuse counselor has acquired 20,000 hours of counseling experience and has remained in good standing with their board certification, they are considered professionally competent and are no longer required to seek ongoing education.

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Answer: No

Substance abuse counselor renew their certification yearly with ethics and confidentiality training. Therefore, they are encourage to seek ongoing education for it is part of their annual renewal.

In addition, they can take the advance education on alcohol and drug counselling with minimum of 40 hours, in-service education, self-improvement seminars and workshops. In the end, nobody wants to be educationally stagnant because they are many rooms for learning and updating in this modern world.