Webinar: Canadian clinical guideline for high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder

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Oct 2, 2023 @ 8:19 am

Event date: Mon, 10/30/2023 - 02:00 - Mon, 10/30/2023 - 03:00

Event type: Single day (a day or less)

About the Webinar

Join us for an upcoming webinar related to alcohol use disorder!

A new Canadian clinical guideline for the treatment of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder (AUD) will be published in mid-October. The guideline co-chairs, Drs. Evan Wood and Jürgen Rehm will present an overview of the guideline’s recommendations and practical tips for implementing them. The webinar will cover strategies for screening and diagnosis, as well as the range of treatment options, along with the evidence behind each of these strategies.

Date: Monday, October 30th, 2023
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern

Description

High-risk drinking, alcohol use disorder (AUD), and alcohol-related harms are frequently unrecognized and untreated in Canada. The Canadian Initiative on Substance Misuse has developed a clinical guideline with recommendations for the identification, intervention, management, and ongoing care of youth and adults with high-risk drinking and AUD. The Guideline was developed by a national committee of multi-disciplinary experts, including people with lived and living experience.

Join a presentation that will provide an overview of the new guidelines and practical tips for implementing the recommendations in a primary care setting. The webinar will cover strategies for screening and diagnosis, as well as the range of treatment options, along with the evidence behind each of these strategies. We will also share new tools and resources that will support you in providing evidence-based care for people with AUD.

Presenters

Jürgen Rehm, PhD; Senior Scientist, Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; Nominated Principal Investigator, Ontario Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

Evan Wood, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FASAM; Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia; Canada Research Chair in Addiction Medicine; Nominated Principal Investigator, British Columbia Node, Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse

About the webinar host

This webinar is presented by the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse and the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use.

The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM)

Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) is a national research consortium focused on substance use disorders, comprising four large interdisciplinary regional teams (nodes) representing British Columbia, the Prairie Provinces, Ontario, Québec, and the Atlantic Provinces.

Each CRISM node is an expert network of research scientists, service providers, policymakers, community leaders, and people with lived experience of substance use disorders. CRISM’s mission is to translate the best scientific evidence into clinical practice and policy change. CRISM is a 5-year initiative and was modeled, in part, on the US National Institute on Drug Abuse’s Clinical Trials Network

CRISM was originally funded for 5 years and has been renewed for a further 6 years, beginning April 1, 2022

The British Columbia Centre on Substance Use

The BC Centre on Substance Use was established in 2017 to provide a centre of expertise to help meet those needs. We aim to be highly collaborative and coordinated in our approach. We place emphasis on research to generate evidence-informed strategies, while harnessing clinical guidance and training to ensure that evidence is implemented into clinical practice in every part of the province.

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