Mission:
The Mission of the Society is to provide a medium for physicians and medical trainees with special interests in addiction medicine to meet and address issues of mutual interest.
The Purposes of the Society are:
- To enable networking with colleagues in addiction medicine
- To provide a closer liaison between members and the national activities of ASAM
- To be a liaison to other physicians and professional societies regarding addiction medicine issues
- To increase public awareness about the existence and vitality of the addiction medicine specialty
- To increase public awareness about problems related to addiction
- To promote professionalism in the delivery of services to patients with problems which result from addiction
- To be a resource for state and national initiative that affect addition medicine services and patients with addiction