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.
In 2003, the Drug Abuse Warning Network reported an average of 2.7 drugs in fatal overdose cases. Importantly, in these cases, no single drug is usually present at a lethal dose. Rather it is the synergistic effects of combining the drugs that is lethal. And the majority of overdoses involve legal drugs.