Events

The Greater Southern California Node and its Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center (PSATTC) partners would like to invite you to Guam's 7th Annual Behavioral Behavioral Health & Addictions Virtual Conference. This FREE two-day virtual conference held in recognition of National Recovery Month will feature 4 plenary presentations and 4 breakout sessions, offering 8 concurrent workshop tracks. Whether you are looking to strengthen your clinical practice, learn about emerging trends, or discover innovative approaches to providing care, this conference offers valuable education and practical strategies to support your work. Sponsored by the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center and the Pacific Southwest ATTC.

Join the Northeast Node for the next installment of their Science Series: Using AI and Passive Data to Improve Digital Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders. Presented by Nicholas C. Jacobson, PhD. Dr. Jacobson, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Psychiatry at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, where he directs the AI and Mental Health: Innovation in Technology Guided Healthcare (AIM HIGH) Laboratory. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers (H-index: 44), with a large portion focused on using passively collected smartphone and wearable sensor data to detect psychiatric disorders, measure symptom severity, and predict real-time changes in mental health. His work spans data from over 10,000 participants across 100+ countries. In this talk, he will cover how these digital phenotyping methods have been applied within the CTN through the D-TECT study (CTN-0084-A2), his lab's personalized digital therapeutics for co-occurring anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders, and the 6.5-year development of Therabot, a generative AI psychotherapy chatbot. Therabot was tested in the first randomized controlled trial of generative AI psychotherapy, published in the New England Journal of Medicine AI, where 210 participants showed large symptom reductions (d=0.63 to 0.90) and averaged over 6 hours of engagement across 24 days. He will close with implications for substance use treatment research.

Join the CTN Health Systems Node on October 1, 2026 (10am PT, 1pm ET) for their next virtual seminar featuring Ryan JJ Buckley, MD, MPH, MHS, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. In MOUD During Critical Illness: What We Know, What We’re Finding, and Where We’re Headed, Dr. Buckley will review current evidence on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in intensive care settings, share preliminary findings from ongoing studies of ICU practice patterns, and discuss efforts to develop a protocolized ICU MOUD intervention for future clinical trial testing. Please join us for this timely discussion of gaps—and emerging opportunities—in addiction care during critical illness. How to join: Click Join the meeting now to connect through Microsoft Teams. If prompted, enter Meeting ID 250 658 877 216 6 and Passcode B8jq2m9A. To join by phone, call +1 213-533-9530 and enter Phone Conference ID 508 786 770#.

The Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) conference brings together researchers, policymakers, and treatment providers to solve the problems of inequity, access, effectiveness, and implementation of addiction services.

Presenter: Christian Hendershot, PhD, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (read more about Dr. Hendershot here) This presentation will summarize emerging evidence for the efficacy of GLP-1 receptor agonists for substance use disorders. Recent and ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials will be reviewed, and key clinical and implementation issues discussed. Learning objectives

As the largest public health gathering of the year, APHA’s Annual Meeting and Expo convenes approximately 11,000 public health professionals and partners from around the world. Join APHA for this can’t-miss opportunity to make lasting connections and learn from exhibitors, peers and today’s leaders. Early bird rates available until September 16, 2026. View program | Register here

AMERSA — the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance Use and Addiction — celebrates its 50th Annual Conference November 12–14, 2026 in Washington, DC. The program brings together physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, counselors, researchers, peer recovery professionals, and people with lived and living experience with plenaries on emerging drugs of concern, contingency management, cannabis and psilocybin regulation, DC/Maryland policy innovation, and the evidence on GLP-1s. Early bird registration is open through August 31.  

This event provides the latest scientific developments in substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health disorders for psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and allied health professionals. The goal of the conference is to recognize emerging issues and trends in Addiction Psychiatry and be on the forefront of the diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders.

CTN Annual Scientific and Steering Committee Meeting, March 15-17, 2027, Bethesda, MA