The Affordable Care Act: New Opportunities for Social Work to Take Leadership in Behavioural Health and Addiction Treatment Your name August 25, 2016 Your Institution of affiliation Research Problem and its relevance to the field of counseling Despite the shift in focus of administrative policies regarding the treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in the US, Lundgren and Krull (2014) argued that there is still an enormous flaw regarding these current treatment strategies. According to them, one of the biggest and perhaps most urgent issue that has to be solved is the risk of excluding the most vulnerable population groups in the efforts of integrating behavioral health and health care services (Lundgren & Krull, 2014, p 415).
