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increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment;
to educate physicians (including medical and osteopathic students), other health care providers and the public;
to support research and prevention;
to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addiction;
and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services, and the general public.
ASAM’s Core Purpose:
To improve the care and treatment of people with the disease of addiction and advance the practice of Addiction Medicine.
ASAM’s Core Values:
Leadership: Evidenced in optimism about change, promoting the mission, acceptance of the achievable, and perseverance in pursuit of the desired future.
Integrity: Evidenced in dedication to the service and spirit of optimal medical care of the disease of addiction and its complications.
Respect: Evidenced in empathy for the human condition and uncompromised commitment to those affected by addictive illness.
Openness: Evidenced in inclusion of a diversity of medical specialists among our members and a diversity of treatments to assist our patients.
Advocacy: Evidenced in boldly speaking up on behalf of persons with the disease of addiction, including impaired health care professionals.
Connectedness: Evidenced in collegiality among members whenever we meet, and in synergistic collaborations with other organizations to achieve our goals.
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