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Goals:

• Increase access to and improve the quality of addictions treatment
• Develop standards for addiction care
• Educate physicians, medical students, and the public
• Advocate for proper care of patients who suffer from addictive disease
• Establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties

Society publications include:

• Journal of Addictive Disease (quarterly)
• ASAM News (bimonthly)
• ASAM Patient Placement Criteria for the Treatment of Substance Related Disorders, Second Edition with optional hypertext software
• Review Course Syllabus
• Practice Guidelines Series
• Principles of Addiction Medicine
• Topics in Addiction Medicine
• ASAM Public Policy Statements

The official journal of ASCH is the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis.

1. 113-th Annual Meeting (March 14-17, 2012: National Harbor, MD)

113-th Annual Meeting

Event sponsor: American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics [ASCPT]

March 14-17, 2012
National Harbor, MD

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Objectives:

• Support and encourage clinically relevant research in psychopharmacology and the rapid dissemination of new findings
• Facilitate exchange of information among senior psychopharmacologists and other investigators in the field and the exchange of information and discussion between investigators and practitioners of psychopharmacology
• Stimulate and encourage young investigators interested in psychopharmacology
• Provide continuing education, e.g., reviews, updates, presentation of new findings, for practicing psychopharmacologists
• Provide basic instruction for health professionals interested in psychopharmacology
• Encourage interest in and support training in psychopharmacology for medical students, psychiatric residents and fellows
• Establish liaisons with, and complement the efforts of, other related professional organizations, eg, APA, ACNP, Biological Psychiatry
• Provide educational programs on the treatment of psychiatric disorders for patients and families and to encourage interchange between psychopharmacologists and patients and their families
• Develop constructive relationships with mental health advocacy groups
• Advocate public policies which promote clinical research of psychiatric disorders and the delivery of high quality patient care

The official publication of ASCP is the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

1. Psychopharmacology Update: "State-of-the-Art" (October 15-16, 2011: New York, NY)
2. Exam in Advanced Clinical Psychopharmacology (October 17, 2011: Glen Oaks, Queens, NY)

Psychopharmacology Update
"State-of-the-Art"

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Sponsor: American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology [ASCP]

October 15-16, 2011
New York, NY

Program:

• Measurement-Based Care in Depression
  • Madhukar Trivedi, MD
• Update on the Treatment of Schizophrenia: Underutilization of Clozapine
  • John Kane, MD
• Perinatal Mood Disorders (MDD and Bipolar)
  • Marlene Freeman, MD
• Update on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Early Identification and Intervention in Individuals at Risk for Psychosis
  • Christoph Correll, MD
• Primer in the Use of Lithium
  • Frederick Goodwin, MD
• Do Any of the Atypicals Qualify as Mood Stabilizers?
  • Frederick Goodwin, MD
• Integrating Psychiatry into the Primary Care Medical Setting
  • David Katzelnick, MD
• New Levels of Understanding Drug Interactions
  • C Lindsay DeVane, PharmD
• Novel Treatments for Depression and Anxiety
  • Carlos Zarate, MD
• Neuromodulation: including VNS, TMS, DBS, Long-term Data and How to Care for these Patients in Your Practice
  • Phillip Janicak, MD
• Substance Abuse Disorders and Pharmacotherapy of Substance Abuse
  • Thomas Kosten, MD
• Role of One Carbon Cycle in the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
  • George Papakostas, MD

As many as 14 continuing education credit hours available for
  -physicians

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Exam in Advanced Clinical Psychopharmacology

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Event sponsor: American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology [ASCP]

October 17, 2011
Glen Oaks, Queens, NY

The ASCP Examination in Advanced Clinical Psychopharmacology is intended to measure the individual's fund of knowledge and clinical expertise in advanced clinical psychopharmacology. The focus is the clinical use of psychopharmacologic agents. Passing this exam does not measure basic competency in the area, but rather superior knowledge and expertise.

A Suggested reading list may help the candidate prepare for the exam.

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• Provide a forum for the broadly defined interest areas of academia, government, and industry concerned with the field of neurotherapeutics
• Promote dialog, understanding, and cooperation among the interested groups
• Develop information and seek consensus on matters germane to the organization's mission
• Organize education and training for healthcare practitioners, biomedical scientists, and officials participating in the neurotherapeutics field

The official publication of ASENT is NeuroRx.