In this month’s President’s message, Dr. Jennifer Brasch reports on the upcoming CSAM-SMCA 2022 Scientific Conference. The theme for this year is, “What’s Next: The Future of Addiction Medicine in Canada.”
In the February President’s message, Dr. Jennifer Brasch introduces evidence-based resources to assist healthcare and social service providers in recognizing and responding safely to interpersonal violence.
In the December President’s message, Dr. Jennifer Brasch reflects on 2021 and how it has been year of growth, and expansion of our virtual connections across the country and as we look ahead into 2022 she shares the promise of CSAM-SMCA’s contribution to work in the addiction medicine community.
We were honoured to have Carol Hopkins speak about “Honouring the Strengths of First Nations in Substance Use Challenges” in a plenary presentation for the CSAM-SMCA 2021 conference.
Given that the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine strives to advocate for the population most impacted by this misguided policy of criminalization, CSAM-SMCA joins the growing calls for decriminalizing drug use and possession for personal use.
In this month’s President’s message, Dr. Jennifer Brasch reports on an exciting motion to come at the annual general meeting, the upcoming CSAM-SMCA conference and her view of overdose epidemic and addiction medicine.
In this month’s President’s message, Dr. Jennifer Brasch discusses trending topics in addiction medicine and how COVID -19 has impacted these concerns, such as Safe Supply, the heightened focus on opioid use disorders and more.