Exit

Overview

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the NAADAC Annual Conference: Addiction Pros 2025! NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, will hold its 2025 Annual Conference on October 11-13, 2025, in Seattle, WA, at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside. We will also feature pre-conference training sessions before the conference and post-conference sessions afterward.
Submissions: NAADAC members and non-members are invited to submit presentation proposals for 1.5 hour breakout sessions. NAADAC encourages experienced trainers, young investigators, researchers, and addiction and co-occurring professionals from diverse organizations and disciplines to submit.

Submission Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025
Presentation Topics: NAADAC and its partners are calling for workshop proposals that offer unique educational experiences for addiction and other helping professionals. In addition to sessions on substance use disorders (SUD), effective treatment, and thriving recovery, we are interested in sessions regarding SUD prevention across the lifespan; family, community, and systems-level approaches; helping addiction professionals successfully work with the justice system and justice-involved people; and assisting professionals without SUD expertise assist their clients or employees with potential alcohol or other drug problems.

We are seeking current and relevant information within these eight topic areas:
  • Practice Management, Organizational Competence, and Technology: Clinical Supervision, Organizational Sustainability and Growth, General Program Operations, Patient Retention, Regulatory Issues, Insurance/Medicaid Reimbursement, Professional Development, Leadership Development, Ethics, Digital Literacy, Teletherapy, Telehealth, Tele-Supervision, Electronic Tools and Apps for Treatment and Recovery, Social Media-Based Treatment Support, Health Information Technology (HIT), Electronic Health Records (EHR).
  • Co-Occurring Disorders: Integrated Treatment; DSM-5; Mental Health Disorders; ADHD and SUD; Depressive Disorders and SUD; Anxiety-Related Disorders and SUD; Eating Disorders and SUD, Trauma-Related Disorders or Trauma Informed Care; Suicide, Self-Harm, and SUD; and ICD 10.
  • Psychopharmacology, Medication for Addiction Treatment , Pharmacotherapy, Co- Occurring Medical Issues, or Advanced SUD-Specific Treatment: Neurobiology/Neuroscience of Addiction, Research to Practice Initiatives and Models, Co- Occurring Medical Issues, and MAT or Specialized Treatment for Opioids, Alcohol, Marijuana, Sedatives, Stimulants, Synthetic Drugs, and Tobacco/Nicotine.
  • Clinical Skills: Evidence-Based Practices, Case Studies, Relapse Prevention, Treatment Planning, Screening & Assessment, Counseling Theories and Practice Methods, Harm Reduction, Clinical Documentation, the ASAM Criteria, Substance Use Prevention and Promising Practices.
  • Cultural Humility & Demographic-Specific Treatment Issues: Cultural Humility Practices, Social Responsibility, Addiction-Specific Issues Involving LGBTQiA+, Racial/Ethnic Groups, Gender, Developmental Stage, Spirituality, Low-Income/Homeless, Criminal Justice/Corrections-Involved, and Veterans/Military.
  • Process Addictions: Gambling Addiction, Gaming Addiction, Sexual Addiction, Internet Addiction, Screen Addiction, Food Addiction, and Other Process Addictions.
  • Peer Recovery and Recovery Support: Community Navigation, Individual & Community Capital, Family and Relationship Support, Integrating Wellness Practices into Treatment, Defining Recovery and Recovery-Oriented Care, and Treatment Coordination, Ethics and Peer Recovery Support, Mutual Support Groups, Peer Support through a Trauma-Informed Lens, Relationship-Based Role of Peers, Efficacy of Peer Support, Technology and Peer Support, Cultural-Sensitivity and Peer Support, Peer Recovery Support Specialists.
  • Higher Education and Behavioral Health Workforce Development: Presentations with a post-secondary educational focus and strategies for recruitment, retention, and developing the addiction and co-occurring disorder workforce.
Presenter Eligibility: To be considered, presenters must have professional qualifications in good standing with their professional regulatory board, if applicable, possess the technical expertise necessary to present on a subject effectively, and meet one or more of the following:
  • Be a faculty member of a college or university;
  • Have received specialized graduate or post-graduate level training in subject of presentation; or
  • Have extensive experience including at least five years of practical application or research involving the subject of presentation.
Benefits of Presenting
  • Up to two co-presenters will receive a discount on the three-day regular conference registration equal to one day of conference attendance (33% discount).
  • Promotion of your name and credentials on our website, in our conference app, and in all electronic and print marketing materials, where appropriate.
  • Recognition of your expertise by NAADAC and by other industry professionals.
  • Networking opportunities.
Financial Responsibility of Presenter(s)
  • While up to two co-presenters per presentation will receive a discount on conference registration equal to one day of attendance, presenters are responsible for all other registration fees, and all travel, hotel, and board expenses. 
  • Please do not apply if you are unable to attend due to the financial responsibility.
Required Terminology: NAADAC requests that presenters refrain from using terminology that perpetuates the negative stigma surrounding those with substance use disorders or living in recovery:
  • Instead of "addict" or “abuser”, please use "person with a substance use disorder", “person living with addiction” or similar reference.
  • Instead of "addicted to X," please use "has an X use disorder," "has a severe X use disorder," or "has a substance use disorder involving X" (if more than one substance is involved.)
  • Instead of "alcoholic," please use "person with an alcohol use disorder."
  • Instead of "drug/substance abuse," please use "substance use disorder."
  • Instead of "former addict," please use "person in recovery" or "person in long-term recovery."
Notification of Selection: All applicants will be notified of their selection or non-selection by email by Monday, March 31, 2025.
Selection Criteria: Application will only be considered if the following criteria are met:
  • All sections of the application are complete.
  • Presentation description is clearly written.
  • Learning objectives are clearly stated.
  • Session structure and organization are clearly defined.
  • Presentation is supported by evidence-based data from research, evidence-informed promising practices, or demonstrated results.
  • Presenters have sufficient experience and knowledge of the subject matter.
  • Presentation is not used to market products or services, and is free from commercial bias.
 
 17% of survey complete.

T