18th-22nd Annual Meetings and Symposium

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请是一项竞争性续签申请，请求为美国成瘾精神病学家学会(AAAP)的年度会议提供五年的支持。AAAP年度科学会议和研讨会为向成瘾领域的医生和其他执业临床医生传播最先进的信息提供了一个独特的论坛。近年来，AAAP会议的出席人数为325-350人，会议为建立网络、指导和建立协作提供了理想的环境。该年度会议旨在向广泛的卫生保健提供者介绍基础和临床研究的最新结果以及成瘾领域的政策相关信息。除了通过各种机制(专题讨论会、讲习班、个案会议等)提供传播信息的论坛外，会议还为交流意见、讨论和工作组提供组织背景，重点放在AAAP的其他教育和政策活动上。在过去的五年中，AAAP年度科学会议和研讨会得到了NIDA的支持，这对改进和扩大会议至关重要。由于NIDA的资助，在1998年会议之后首次编写了会议记录。会议与会者和无法出席会议的个人对这些问题的反应极为积极，他们要求提供会议记录的副本以供参考。为了使会议过程更容易获得和负担得起，现在所有与会者都可以通过光盘获得这些会议记录。在过去的三年中，AAAP将一个研讨会纳入了年度会议，该研讨会重点介绍了NIDA的临床试验网络(CTN)的研究结果。AAAP会议为向实践界传播CTN研究成果提供了一个重要论坛。在过去的三年里，CTN研讨会一直是年度会议的一个重要组成部分，出席人数很多，我们将在续展期间继续每年更新CTN。本申请中还描述了其他研讨会、研讨会和指导活动的计划，这些活动将成为请求支持期间的年度会议的一部分。AAAP年会和研讨会从NIDA的持续支持中受益匪浅。我们希望继续与NIDA合作，为成瘾治疗社区提供最先进的循证治疗信息。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is a competing renewal requesting five years of support for annual meetings of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrist (AAAP). The AAAP Annual Scientific Meeting and Symposium provides a unique forum for dissemination of state-of-the-art information to physicians and other practicing clinicians in the addictions area. The AAAP meeting attendance has been 325-350 in recent years and the meeting provides an ideal setting for networking, mentoring and building collaboration. The annual meeting is designed to present the latest findings from basic and clinical research as well as policy-related information in the field of addictions to a broad array of health care providers. In addition to providing the forum for information dissemination through a variety of mechanisms (symposia, workshops, case conferences, etc.), the meeting provides the organizational backdrop for the exchange of ideas, discussion and working groups focused on other AAAP educational and policy-based activities. For the last five years, the AAAP Annual Scientific Meeting and Symposium has received support from NIDA which has been critical to improving and expanding the meeting. As a result of NIDA funding, conference proceedings were first produced after the 1998 meeting. The response to these has been overwhelmingly favorable from both conference attendees and individuals unable to attend the conference who requested a copy of the Proceedings for reference purposes. In order to make the proceedings more accessible and affordable, they are now available to all participants on CD roms. During the last three years, AAAP has incorporated a symposium highlighting findings from NIDA's Clinical Trials Network (CTN) as a part of the annual meeting. The AAAP meeting provides an important forum for dissemination of the results of CTN studies to the practicing community. The CTN Symposium has been a well attended and important part of the annual meeting for the past three years and we will continue the yearly CTN update during the renewal period. Also described in this application are plans for other symposia, workshops, and mentoring activities that will be part of the annual meetings during the period of support requested. The AAAP Annual Meeting and Symposia has benefited greatly from ongoing NIDA support. We hope to continue to work together with NIDA to provide state-of-the-art information about evidence-based treatments to the addictions treatment community.