Media Advisory – Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse Presents the National Conference on Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Addiction

November 16–18 in Montreal, Quebec

Ottawa, November 10, 2015 – Issues of Substance is Canada’s national conference and largest gathering for the field of addiction to present new research and advance knowledge, inform policy, change practice and improve services for education, prevention, treatment and recovery in Canada. Experts include addiction workers, healthcare professionals, researchers, policy makers and knowledge brokers.

This three-day event is led by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) and delivered this year in partnership with Mise sur toi. The conference theme is Addiction Matters, coinciding with the theme and date of National Addictions Awareness Week.

Addiction matters because it is a chronic health condition that affects us all in some way. Addiction does not discriminate between big city and small town, between man and woman, between those with healthy incomes and those struggling to make ends meet. Binge drinking, impaired driving, prescription drug misuse — Canadians with substance use disorders and their friends, families and communities — millions are touched by the harms of substance misuse and the disease of addiction every single day. The cost to Canada’s health system is profound — $40 billion per year.

What: Issues of Substance 2015, national conference When: November 16–18

Where: Hotel Bonaventure, Montreal

Website: www.ccsa.ca/Eng/newsevents/Issues-of-Substance-Conference/program/Pages/default.aspx Announcements:

• Release of Cannabis Regulation: Lessons Learned from Colorado and Washington State

• Launch of updated report, Collaboration for Addiction and Mental Health Care: Best Advice

• Results of survey findings, evaluating the priorities of the National Framework for Action to Reduce the Harms Associated with Alcohol and Other Drugs and Substances in Canada

The conference program is available on the CCSA website. On Twitter, the conference hashtag is #AddictionMatters in English and #Ladépendanceçacompte in French.

Read More: http://www.ccsa.ca/Resource%20Library/CCSA-IOS-2015-National-Conference-Media-Advisory-2015-en.pdf

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