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📅Save the date! APSAD 2025 is taking place from Sunday 9 - Wednesday 12 November 2025 at the International Convention Centre, Gadigal (Sydney), Australia Registration Open: March 2025 Abstract Submission Open: March 2025 Super Earlybird Deadline: Early April 2025 #APSAD25

ASVCP Webinar Today! Join us for our first webinar of 2026 at 1300 AEDT today. Break the Habit Study (Vaping vs varenicline for smoking cessation among people experiencing social disadvantage: a consumer guided clinical trial). Register Here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Thanks to everyone who came to #APSAD25. We hope you had a great conference, learned lots of new things and made some new friends. We're already busy working on #APSAD26 and can't wait to see you in Walyalup (Fremantle) 8-11 November 2026. Stay tuned for more information.

Big congratulations to this morning's APSAD awardees. @LouisaPicco and Sione Crawford #APSAD25

On now is the Kyp Kypri Early Career keynote from @LouisaPicco #APSAD25

Congratulations to our APSAD award winners: Mentor Award - James Conigrave Mid Career Award - Delyse Hutchinson First Peoples Award - Tina Taylor #APSAD25

APSAD’s 2nd inaugural drug trivia competition! Thanks to our hosts Jeff Buckley and Anke van der Sterren #APSAD25

Poster tours on now at #APSAD25 - remember to vote for your favourite!

Concurrent sessions on culture safety, youth insight and public health innovation; service innovation and systemic risk; vaping, tobacco and cross-cultural harm reduction; and technology and complexity in AOD populations, as well as a storytelling session

Remember to visit the cultural space at #APSAD25, different activities and presentations will be available during the conference

Keynote adress by Tracey McIntosh #APSAD25 ‘Dispossession is so powerful ... because it colonises our futures. ... Dispossession has a devastating, ongoing impact’

Great to start with another smoking ceremony for our morning plenary session #APSAD25

Late afternoon plenary with keynote presenatation by Shalini Arunogiri on innovation and implementation in integrated care: trauma, PTSD and addiction #APSAD25

Poster tours on now! Don’t forget to vote for your favourite #APSAD25

Thank you to Raymond Weatherall for finishing this morning’s session with a smoking ceremony #APSAD25

Starting off #APSAD25 with a panel session on Fitting Care to Clients with Michael Doyle, Elder Gerry Oleman, Danielle Manton, Kurt Simpson and Tracy McIntosh

Great to see so many people at the opening plenary for #APSAD25, kicking off with an Aboriginal dance performance and welcome from our convenors - Chris Marel, Kurt Simpson, Rob Stirling & Suzie Hudson

Welcome to Gadigal Sydney! Excited to see everyone at #APSAD25

Are you attending the #APSAD2025 next week? Say hi to Tara who will be attending for the @AIAODKC. The Conference aims to elevate First Nations ways of knowing, being and doing around #AOD prevention, treatment, research and policy: 🔗 bit.ly/49hOvyr

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Urgent Need for Pairing Training and Education With Fentanyl Test Strip Distribution Megan K. Reed, Tracy Esteves Camacho, Kristin L. Rising, Rose Laurano, Danielle Albaciete, Stephen E. Lankenau @JeffersonUniv @HMHNewJersey @DrexelUniv onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/da…