Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Association Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference 2023

A practical, cross-disciplinary meeting focused on prevention, treatment, and recovery across alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD). Sessions blend evidence, policy, and lived-experience perspectives to translate research into services that work in real settings.
What You Will Learn

Current best practices for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT)

Evidence-based care for alcohol, opioids, stimulants, cannabis, and polysubstance use

Harm-reduction strategies, overdose prevention, and post-overdose engagement

Co-occurring mental health, trauma, and physical health management

Culturally safe, youth-friendly, and justice-informed approaches

Service design: integrated care, digital health, measurement, and quality improvement

Event Details

Features: Practice toolkits, service case studies, and lived-experience forums

Focus: Translating evidence into policy and frontline implementation across Australia & New Zealand

Who Should AttendAddiction clinicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, GPs, nurses, social workers, peer workers, public health leaders, NGO and government program managers, researchers, educators, policymakers, and students.
Why Attend

Turn guidelines into practical pathways you can deploy in clinics, communities, and systems

Learn what’s working in real programs—outcomes, pitfalls, and scalability

Build partnerships across health, community, and justice to improve access and equity

+ Topics:
*Note: these are continuous video recordings during the conference, they include individual lectures mentioned in the Detail section below
Apr 27.mp4
Apr 28.mp4
*Detail:

Alcohol, opioids, stimulants, cannabis, vaping, and emerging substances

Harm reduction: naloxone, needle/syringe programs, supervised consumption, safer-use education

Co-occurring conditions: depression, anxiety, PTSD, psychosis, pain, infectious diseases

Youth, perinatal, First Nations and Māori/Pasifika-led models of care

Justice, homelessness, and rural/remote service delivery

Digital tools, telehealth, data, and outcome measurement

Workforce wellbeing, supervision, ethics, and lived-experience leadership