The document discusses current social issues that may impact addiction counseling. It identifies several right-wing and left-wing social groups that have gained prominence, including the Proud Boys, QAnon, Antifa, and Black Lives Matter. It poses questions about how the rise of these opposing groups could affect addiction treatment clients, funding, counselors themselves, and raise ethical issues, such as how to handle clients affiliated with white supremacist groups or assigned a non-white counselor. The document examines how shifting social and political divides may increasingly influence the addiction counseling field.