Client, Family and Community Education Course 30% off through January 2014

Happy New Year! We are offering a special now through the end of January on our course "Client, Family and Community Education for the Addictions Professional" - It is currently 30% off. Click here to enroll today in Client, Family and Community Education for the Addictions Professional. Here Read More...

Spirituality and Recovery Course for the Addictions Professional February Sale

We are offering a second course at a 30% discount during the month of February: "Spirituality and Recovery, Including 12-Step Programs". This course would be a wonderful addition to your recertification requirements or your initial certification as an addictions professional. Please take Read More...

Cyber Testing on the Islands for the International Certification Exam

For those of you on the neighbor islands, Hawaii Alcohol and Drug abuse Division of Department of Health is now allowing qualified candidates to test for Certified Substance Abuse Counselor exam at University of Hawaii campuses via computer now. One of my grads will the very first to test on the Big Read More...

Into the New Year

2011 was a year for the books, with much inner growth and endurance as the orders of the day. 2012 shines with promise. A new job, possibly a move to a new home and a new website for Pacific Academy of the Healing Arts. We are planning to construct a website specifically for addictions Read More...

Light in the storm

Last week, I wrote about an old friend being shaken from the welfare tree because he was deemed "not disabled enough" to forgo work. Thursday, I picked my messages to hear the first shade of hope in this man's voice in many months. He was jubilantly announcing that, after six years of Read More...