: Ecolink Institute of Well-being in collaboration with the Colombo Plan-Drug Advisory Programme, Sri Lanka has started its
second batch of students in Universal Treatment Curriculum (UTC) on Substance Use Disorder Management on November 3. The course will
end by March 22.

Becky Vaughn, Director of the Global Center for Credentialing & Certication (GCCC), United States opened the online training course, which
is attended by 40 professionals from 11 countries. The Chief Guest, Becky said that there is tremendous scope for addiction professionals in
the world as the number of substance users is going higher according to the UNODC survey report published in 2020