Department of Health Sciences

Bachelor of Science in Addiction Studies

The University of Central Arkansas is the only university in the State of Arkansas to offer a Bachelor of Science Degree in Addiction Studies!

If you are looking for an exciting career with growing opportunities and  want to be in the forefront in helping to resolve one of our country's greatest social problems, explore a career in addiction counseling or addiction prevention.

This program is specifically designed to provide the education, technology and clinical training needed to prepare students entering an addiction health care setting.

Providers of addiction counseling and addiction prevention in the State of Arkansas and throughout the nation have expressed a need for certified addiction counselors and certified addiction preventionists to work in treating and in preventing substance abuse.  The problems associated with drugs of abuse are expected to be with us for long into the foreseeable future.

A Bachelor of Science Degree in Addiction Studies graduate will be prepared to work in such settings as hospitals, outpatient clinics, employee assistance programs, schools, the criminal justice system, governmental agencies and drug courts.

Lisa Ray is the Project Coordinator for the Addiction Studies program.  Email: lray@uca.edu or Telephone: 501-450-5736

A list of the required courses may be found here.