BC Substance Use Care Update
May 22, 2025 | 8:00AM—5:00PM
The BC Substance Use Care Update is a virtual learning day for healthcare professionals who are providing substance use and addiction care in British Columbia.
Why an online learning day?
Keeping up with the latest evidence and clinical best practices in addiction treatment and care is always challenging.
This virtual update day will be an accessible venue for clinicians to learn about major changes and updates to substance use care over the past year.
The 2025 BC Substance Use Care Update is being organized for clinicians in place of the BCCSU's annual in-person conference this year and will serve to complement the other clinical training offered by the BCCSU.
Who should attend?
The BC Substance Use Care Update is a CME-accredited learning day designed primarily for physicians, RNs, RPNs, LPNs, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists.
However, anyone engaged in issues related to substance use—including people with lived and living experience with substance use, family members and caregivers, recovery service operators, policymakers, health care administrators and operators—are encouraged to attend.
What will attendees learn?
The BC Substance Use Care Update day aims to increase the reach, engagement, and implementation of the latest guidance, peer-reviewed literature, and emerging practices.
Attendees will hear about a range of clinical practice and research topics that include person-first, culturally safe, recovery-oriented approaches.
Sessions throughout the day will be delivered across two streams, with topics covering:
Emerging OAT practices, updates to provincial opioid use disorder clinical guidelines, managing substance use in acute care settings, managing benzodiazepine withdrawal, youth substance use care, and more.
How much is registration?
To make the day as accessible as possible, registration will be $150 per person. Recordings of the sessions will also be available to registrants following the Update day.
People with lived and living experience with substance use are invited to attend at no cost and can email [email protected] to register.
Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors!
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
About our Gold Sponsors
Doctors of BC is a democratic association representing more than 16,000 physician members. Working together, they support BC doctors to be leaders in delivering and improving patient care.
They support doctors in:
- Providing quality patient-centred, culturally safe care.
- Being trusted leaders and partners in health care system transformation.
- Achieving professional satisfaction by feeling valued.
Their direction and priorities:
- Increase the influence of the physician voice.
- Promote physician health, wellness, and safety.
- Ensure fair compensation and provide business support.
- Engage members on the future of the profession and the culture of medicine.
Health Quality BC (HQBC) provides system-wide leadership to improve health care quality in British Columbia. Collaborating with health authorities, patients, and care providers, HQBC promotes a coordinated, patient-centred approach. We offer resources and programs to enhance care quality, including the BC Health Quality Matrix, which defines quality across seven dimensions and five areas of care.
CRISM
The Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Matters (CRISM) is a national network of over 500 researchers, service providers, policy makers and people with lived experience. Launched in 2013 by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health, and Addiction, CRISM’s overall objective is to translate evidence-based interventions for substance misuse into clinical practice, community-based prevention, and health system changes. Our intent is to support the creation of more effective, personal, and adoptable intervention programs and services.