LAS VEGAS
13th Annual Meeting & Symposium
Hyatt Lake Las Vegas Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
December 12-15, 2002
PROCEEDINGS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: FOUNDERS’ AWARD RECIPIENT DR. SHELDON MILLER
SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS
I. Pain Management and Addiction
II. Problem and Pathological Gambling
III. Pharmacotherapy of Alcoholism: Opioid Antagonists and Acamprosate
IV. New Developments in Contingency Management
CASE CONFERENCE: Clinicians at Work
MEDICAL UPDATE: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF HEPATITIS C IN PATIENTS WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
WORKSHOPS
I. Integrating Treatment of Adolescent Substance Use Disorders and Common Comorbid Disorders: Blending Research and Practice
II. Use of Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin (CDT) and Other Alcohol Biomarkers in Psychiatric Practice
III. Second Annual International Members Workshop
IV. Physician Health and Addiction
V. Building a Career in Addiction Psychiatry
VI. Drug Courts: Admission, Treatment, Outcome and Concerns for the Addiction Psychiatrist
VII. Proximal Process and Addiction: Academic Theory or Clinical Pearl?
VIII. Political Action and Building Coalitions
IX. Update on Pharmacological Management of Dual Diagnosis Patients
X. AIDS and Mental Illness in African American Patients
XI. Management of the Difficult Opioid-Dependent Chronic Pain Patient
XII. Teaching Medical Students About Addiction
XIII. Effective Integration of a Methadone Medical Maintenance Intervention Into a Step Care System of Methadone Maintenance Treatment Delivery
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
I. Differences in Effectiveness of Atypical Antipsychotics in Patients with Co-Occurring Psychotic and Substance Abuse Disorders
II. GABA Agonists as Putative Pharmacotherapies for Cocaine Abuse: Results From Human Laboratory Experiments
III. Treatment Response of Opium Smoking Hmong Refugees to Methadone Maintenance
IV. Substance Abuse Field: The State of the Art
V. Predictors for Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment No-Show in High-Frequency Cocaine Users: Validation of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria
POSTERS
PROGRAM
Publication of the 13th Annual Meeting and Symposium Proceedings supported in part by Grant No. R13 DA15108-01 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
