National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP)
The National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers, NAATP, has been the addiction service profession’s vision, voice, and thought leader since 1978. They are committed to advancing addiction services and supporting their ever growing membership of service providers.
NAATP is a nonprofit professional society that represents hundreds of not-for-profit and for-profit addiction treatment providers who offer critical services along the full continuum of care, from intervention, transportation, private therapy, outpatient care, hospitalization, residential treatment, and continuing/aftercare. They support their members by providing clinical and operational resources as well as law and policy advocacy. NAATP’s service as a convening body brings the industry together to promote collegiality and the dissemination of best practices.
Mission:
The mission of NAATP is to provide leadership, advocacy, training, and member support services to ensure the availability and highest quality of addiction treatment.
Values:
They value the history of significant contributions made by 12-step abstinence-based treatment to the sobriety of over twenty million Americans in recovery.
They value residential treatment’s vital, necessary and essential place in the full continuum of care as a viable choice for the treatment of the disease of addiction.
They value a comprehensive model of care that addresses the medical, bio-psycho-social and spiritual needs of individuals and families impacted by the disease of addiction.
They value research-driven, evidence-based treatment interventions that integrate the sciences of medicine, therapy, and spirituality. They celebrate these examples:
• Pharmaceutical interventions including medications for reducing craving and withdrawal symptoms
• Psycho-social interventions including cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing
• Spiritual interventions including Twelve Step facilitated therapy and mindfulness meditation
• Behavioral interventions including nutrition and exercise
They value abstinence from all abusable drugs as an optimal component of wellness and lifelong recovery. Depending on bio-psycho-social and economic factors, there may be persons who might require medication-assisted treatment for extended periods of time and perhaps indefinitely. However, medication alone is never sufficient to maintain long-term recovery.
They value outcome data that assess the efficacy of treatment interventions.
They value education and training that promotes understanding of a continuum of care that embraces these values.