The 22nd Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders

Special Focus on Women, Pregnancy, and Addiction

This year, the CCSAD program highlights the topics of women, pregnancy and addiction. Join OB/GYN, Family Practice and Internal Medicine physicians as well as Addiction Medicine specialists to network and learn more about how addiction and recovery affects the pregnant patient. Key issues regarding the management of  substance abuse and dependency during pregnancy will be presented.

Conference Highlights:

• medico-legal issues in pregnancy;
• benzodiazepine use among women;
• reproduction and contraception among women with addiction;
• opiate maintenance therapy in a pregnant population with methadone and subutex;
• the development of a family model for management of opiate dependence in pregnant women
• management of addiction in the pregnant patient

Speakers include Dr. Gary Helmbrecht, Dr,. Martha Wunsch, Dr. Mishka Terplan, Dr. John Brooklyn, and Dr. Mark Publicker.

Date: September 11, 12 & 13, 2009

Location: Resort and Conference Center in Hyannis, MA

Presented by: The New England Chapters of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) in collaboration with the Cape Cod Symposium on Addictive Disorders (CCSAD).

Download the brochure (.pdf, 1 page)

For more information contact:
Dee K. McGraw
deemcgraw@ameritech.net
616.475.4210
http://www.ccsad.com