Mental health counselors also can obtain voluntary specialty credentialing as Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors (CCMHCs) from the NBCC. To obtain this certification, NCCs must complete at least 60 hours of graduate coursework and at least two years and 3,000 hours of supervised clinical counseling experience.
On the other hand, morphine addicts can grow to tolerate over two grams a day, though it normally only takes 200 milligrams to induce a fatal overdose (60 in extreme cases). This is true whether someone becomes addicted through medical assistance or illicit attempts to get high.
A parenteral dose of 8 to 10 mg of methadone is approximately equivalent in analgesic effect to 10 mg of morphine. With single-dose administration, the onset and duration of analgesic action of the 2 drugs are similar. When administered orally, methadone is approximately one-half as potent as when given parenterally.