Nice to see Marcie Gray from #USARA present at #AMERSA2024 in Portland. USARA is doing an awesome job at providing rural peer support and peer support coaching. #PARCKA @parcka.bsky.social

Welcome to AMERSA - AMERSA AMERSA founded in 1976, is a non-profit professional organization whose mission is to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical care and policy.

Thank you again for helping to make #AMERSA2024 a great conference! The photo gallery, presentation slides, and other materials from the conference are now available at amersa.org/2024-conference. Keep an eye out for the #AMERSA2025 call for abstracts, workshops, and conference awards in February.

Last month, we had a blast sharing research, innovations, & community at @amersa.org #AMERSA2024 in #Chicago. Congrats again to award winners, Drs. Patrick O'Connor & @gaildonofrio.bsky.social, pictured below w/ their presenters, Drs. Jeanette Tetrault & Kate Hawk.

📷: Seth Jacobson

We were excited to unveil AMERSA's new 3-year strategic plan at this year's annual conference. #AMERSA2024

We can't wait to implement the plan over the coming years.

Being provided this opportunity is heartwarming. I can take my lived experience of substance use & combine it with my social work profession, with other professionals with lived experience. There is nothing like that connection. -Andie Ruggles, Multidisciplinary Engagement Award Winner #AMERSA2024

"AMERSA is dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration & recognizing racial/ethnic disparities in substance use disorders & treatment access. As a GDWA scholar, I am proud to continue this mission. I feel inspired to keep pushing for change as a Native Hawaiian scholar." -Nikki Apana #AMERSA2024

I'm grateful & honored to receive the Growing a Diverse Workforce Award/GDWA at #Amersa2024! As a social worker committed to health equity, this opportunity allowed me to connect with leading experts in SUD treatment & gain invaluable mentorship. Thank you @amersa.org and @smountainray.bsky.social!

AMERSA executive director Rebecca Northup, president Deborah Finnell, and AMERSA 2024 attendee Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN

"AMERSA has grown the organization in a way that has kept it truly multidisciplinary. That's a hard thing to do. It's hard to not prioritize a particular profession, but it has really not grown that way, but preserved its multidisciplinarity." - Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN #AMERSA2024

AMERSA 2024 GDWA mentors and mentees.

"As an attendee, I saw how AMERSA is truly unique. I had special conversations with professionals from many fields and am better equipped to incorporate new values and concepts in my own research and clinical work". -Dr. Fernanda Gushken, GDWA Awardee #Amersa2024

So grateful for this rockstar @amersa.org team at #AMERSA2024!! 😍🔥💪

AMERSA 2024 conference attendees

It is always like hanging out with friends. During breaks we debrief the sessions, and you have a world expert sitting right next to you so it is easy to approach them and ask questions. -Raagini Jawa, MD, MPH, FASAM

Thank you for taking the time to tell us what made #AMERSA2024 special to you.

A group of 17 people sitting around large table smiling because they are together.

Leaving my first #AMERSA2024
experience with a head full of knowledge and motivation. But mostly, so grateful to have had the opportunity to connect in person and present on drug user/ally coalition building with my fellow #liberatemethadone
friends. @amersa.org

What an awesome #AMERSA2024 in Chicago. Can’t wait for #AMERSA2025 in Portland! AMERSA—as an organization—has matured into a beacon of scholarship, integrity, science, and collegiality. It’s what all organizations strive for but few achieve. Thank you @amersa.org !

Had a blast at #AMERSA2024

Thank you @ajaymanhapra.bsky.social @stefankertesz.bsky.social for including me in your workshop on narrative medicine at #AMERSA2024. I learned so much from you!

Great project by Dr Ilana Hull on uptake of Xylazine testing of substances during pregnancy. Pregnant people want to protect their offspring and change behaviors based on knowledge of drug supply! #AMERSA2024

#AMERSA2024 has been truly magical. So grateful that I stumbled upon this organization last year on Twitter. One good thing that came out of the bad place.

#AMERSA2024 Existential Determinants of Health: acknowledgement, appreciation, listening, understanding, love

Alcohol is major source of inequities- white upper income drink the most but AA, Latinx, indigenous, and low income suffer the consequences! #AMERSA2024

#AMERSA2024 Rich Saitz “what’s the evidence?” Session on treatment for alcohol use disorder. Remembering one of heroes. Missing Rich…

AMERsA BlueSky page

Yay!
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Amersa 2022 headshot

Amersa 2024 headshot

Goofy #AMERSA2024 tradition I have with the photographer after he caught me the second year wearing the same shirt — annual headshot in the same shirt. I give you 2022 and 2024.

CSI Opioids at #AMERSA2024

What a great #AMERSA2024 with all of my favorite people. Good reminder that we are all used to fighting a never ending war to protect our people so we are trained and resilient. I love you all and my heart and cup are both full. @raaginizzle.bsky.social @elisolomon97.bsky.social

The great Dr. Kate Hawk dropping knowledge on ED prescribing practices for MAUD. Uhm, #EMedsky can we talk about this discharge prescriptions for phenobarbital > naltrexone/gabapentin/Disulfiram?! 👀
#addictionmed #AMERSA2024

Founding AMERSA member Sidney Schnoll, MD, PhD

When I started working in substance use, I was told that I was wasting my career by going into the field. And now it's such a robust field, with new divisions of substance use medicine and nursing for example, even whole divisions of schools dedicated to this. -Sidney Schnoll, MD, PhD #AMERSA2024

#AMERSA2024 workshop on Stimulant use disorder shows state law restrictions on prescribing controlled substances -including restrictions on indications or whether pt had SUD. Note Texas restrictions for controlled substances to “an abuser of drugs “. Highly subjective and stigmatizing