Mission Statement
AAAP is a national professional society that focuses on evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery approaches, particularly for people with substance use disorders and co-occurring psychiatric disorders.
Our primary focus is to:
- Promote high quality evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery approaches.
- Strengthen Addiction Psychiatry specialty training, foster careers in Addiction Psychiatry and promote Addiction
- Psychiatry as a recognized specialty.
- Provide evidence-based substance use disorder education to healthcare trainees and healthcare professionals.
- Educate the public and influence policy on substance use, co-occurring psychiatric disorders and related issues.
AAAP’s Values
Integrity
- We value individual and organizational honesty, respect and credibility
- We honor commitments to our patients, colleagues and partners
- We are accountable to the highest ethical standards of the profession
Innovation
- We are forward-looking – experimenting, adapting and learning as we go
- We are visionary leaders transforming evidence-based care for addiction and mental health
- We help members bring creative and compassionate solutions to serve their patients
Collaboration
- We create a collegial and patient-centered community
- We build partnerships to leverage greater outcomes than we could achieve alone
- We work together to eliminate barriers and build relationships based on trust and respec
AAAP’s Vision
- Training and educating the general psychiatric community to provide evidence-based prevention and treatment for substance use and other psychiatric disorders.
- Reducing stigma of addiction in the public and professional spheres.
- Increasing awareness that substance use disorders and other mental disorders often co-occur.
- Advocating for robust addiction training requirements in medical schools and residencies.
- Influencing research and funding priorities in the public and private sector.
- Building and strengthening collaborations with related professional organizations and valued partners.
- Attracting new trainees with a strong network of addiction psychiatry fellowships.
- Advocating for high quality treatment standards and bringing oversight to the addiction treatment industry.
- Working to transform the justice and legal system to better serve patients with addiction.