Norman Walker, 62, the tribe's longtime alcoholism counselor, now mans the vestibule.

Doctors, nurses, alcoholism counselors and social workers do not work together.

The credentialed alcoholism counselors are trained in 12-step, and a lot are recovering alcoholics themselves.

Criticism of Rigidity Some officials, especially those with backgrounds in drug treatment, see a rigidity in the thinking of many alcoholism counselors.

After having participated in writing the state's first criteria for certified alcoholism counselors, she became one of the first to be licensed.

During the 1990s he has also worked as an alcoholism counselor, particularly with children whose lives have been impacted by alcoholism.

After I stopped drinking," the mother said, "I began studying to become an alcoholism counselor.

She also said alcoholism counselors had recommended confinement.

Each group of 20 patients works with three certified alcoholism counselors.

Ms. Vocht, an alcoholism counselor, was 8 years old when she walked in on her father molesting her two sisters.