There is a contractual obligation that the student, the parent and the high school guidance counselor are bound to.

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Dr. Eric Garbuckle, a high school guidance counselor in Germantown, Pa.

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"You can have a high school diploma and a weekend course and you can hang out a shingle and call yourself an addiction counselor, " says Joseph A. Califano Jr.

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