Professional Membership is open to individuals who are engaged and working in the field as addictions professionals.

Open to individuals who are working toward qualification, licensure, or certification in the addictions profession and have less than five years of experience. This category may include counselors-in-training category and non-clinical addiction professionals, such as probation officers, marketing representatives, public health workers, peer recovery support specialists, as well as other people interested in the addiction field.

Open to those individuals currently enrolled in a college, university or state government-approved training facility with a minimum of three credit hours in addiction studies. Students involved in a full or part-time internship are also eligible for student membership. Student members must not be currently licensed or certified as an addiction professional or practicing as an addiction professional.

Open to individuals actively enrolled in the U.S. Military.

Open to individuals actively enrolled in the U.S. Military or U.S. Military