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.

The full program will be published soon.

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.

Community members and others for whom finances are a barrier are invited to attend at no cost and can email [email protected] to register.