Welcome to the Canadian Society of Addiction Medicine
Our Society offers a resource of scientific and medical information about Addiction, for professionals and the general public. Bulletin articles with news and views, Definitions, Policy Statements, and networking are available to improve the understanding, assessment, treatment, prevention and research related to Addiction Medicine in Canada and around the world.
Our annual meeting and courses serve to provide continuing medical education for physicians and other health care providers. We welcome comments and dialogue from providers and consumers.
We provide Certification in Addiction Medicine for physicians. Currently, there are 71 CCSAM - Certificants of the Canadian Society of Medicine in Canada.
2013 Membership
We are pleased to now offer online registration for one, three or five-year terms.
If you are interested in becoming a member, please click http://www.csam.org/Membership/membership_application.aspx
If you are already a member, you can use the shortened Renewal form: http://www.csam.org/Membership/membership_renewal.aspx
If you have any questions or would like assistance, please contact Head Office at 403-813-7217 or email admin@csam.org
CSAM 2013 Annual Meeting & Scientific Conference Vancouver BC September 26-28, 2013
Our Plenary speakers have confirmed - please click here to see the information brochure for CSAM 2013 Vancouver.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - please click here for information
A Fundamentals one-day course will be offered on Sunday, Sept 29th. separate registration will be required. A tentative prgram for the day is:
8:30-9:30 Biopsychosocial Approaches to Addiction Medicine
9:30-10:15 Office Based Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment
10:15-10:30 break
10:30-11:15 Alcohol
11:15-11:45 Benzodiazepines
11:45-12:00 Morning Q&A
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Cannabis
13:30-14:00 Update on Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy
14:00-14:15 Q&A
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-15:15 Safe Opioid Prescribing
15:15-16:00 Opioid Use Disorders
16:00 -16:30 Final Q+A/Case Discussion
The Registration link will be up soon.
http://www.csam.org/Annual_Meeting/conference_registration.aspx
Issues of the Canadian Journal of Addiction Medicine & weekly Bulletin
All issues are available online under the sidebar CSAM Journal.
CJAM welcomes submissions for their subsequent issues. Please email your submission to: admin@csam.org
To access the weekly Bulletin please go to http://multibriefs.com/briefs/csam/
