Pete Nielsen

Pete Nielsen is the CEO of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals. CCAPP is the largest statewide consortium of community-based for profit and nonprofit substance use disorder treatment agencies and addiction-focused professionals, providing services to more than 100,000 California residents annually in residential, outpatient and private practice settings.

Articles by Pete Nielsen

• Is this the end of the addiction profession?

  Thursday, November 10, 2016

  Various states have chosen to merge their alcohol and drugs departments with their mental health departments into a new department called "behavioral health." In investigating the impact of this change, something occurred to me: We may be harming addiction treatment's effectiveness.