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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

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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: https://t.co/M72CUTcP3d

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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.

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

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On now is the Kyp Kypri Early Career keynote from @LouisaPicco
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Congratulations to our APSAD award winners:

Mentor Award - James Conigrave
Mid Career Award - Delyse Hutchinson
First Peoples Award - Tina Taylor

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APSAD’s 2nd inaugural drug trivia competition!

Thanks to our hosts Jeff Buckley and Anke van der Sterren

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

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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

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

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Keynote adress by Tracey McIntosh #APSAD25

‘Dispossession is so powerful ... because it colonises our futures. ... Dispossession has a devastating, ongoing impact’

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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Welcome to Gadigal Sydney!

Excited to see everyone at #APSAD25

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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: 🔗 https://t.co/o55R3GROFg

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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

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