Sec. 8. (a) An applicant under section 2 of this chapter must have at least two (2) years of clinical addiction counseling experience that must include at least two hundred (200) hours under supervision, one hundred (100) hours of which must be under individual supervision and up to one hundred (100) hours of which may be under group supervision. The supervision required must be provided by a qualified supervisor, as determined by the board.

     (b) A doctoral internship may be applied toward the supervised work experience requirement.

     (c) Except as provided in subsection (d), the experience requirement may be met by work performed at or away from the premises of the qualified supervisor.

     (d) The work requirement may not be performed away from the qualified supervisor’s premises if:

(1) the work is the independent private practice of addiction therapy; and

(2) the work is not performed at a place that has the supervision of a qualified supervisor.

As added by P.L.122-2009, SEC.29. Amended by P.L.207-2021, SEC.29.