• Receive discounts on ASAM publications, conferences, and courses.
• Advocacy for comprehensive benefits for the treatment of addictive disorders, at full parity with benefits for the treatment of other medical disorders.
• Discount on Revised Patient Placement Criteria (ASAM PPC-2R) National Guidelines
• Involvement in the largest leading professional society actively seeking to define and expand the field of addiction medicine.
• Save Money – Through Medem’s Your Practice Online physician web site service, you can build a customized web site in only minutes with no start-up, hosting or maintenance fees.
• FREE ASAM News (bimonthly), Journal of Addictive Diseases (quarterly), ASAM’s Annual Membership Directory
• Exert influence on managed care's approach to addictions treatment through development of joint policy statements, use of the ASAM PPC-2R, and member involvement in managed care organizations and policies.
• Access to a network of leading experts in the field; meet friends, colleagues, mentors, role models, admired experts, and more in ASAM.
• Healthcare Professional and Accrediting Organization Representation in the AMA, AOA, JCAHO, NCQA, to name a few.
• Opportunity to develop treatment guidelines and protocols and to foster clinical research
• Chance to apply for ASAM’s MasterCard Credit Card through MBNA America
• List your professional areas of interest on ASAM’s website for possible referrals
• Access tools to advocate for more effective national and state drug policies
• Formulate and execute the Society's policies and programs, through service in elective office, in Chapters, on committees, and and to serve on future focus groups to determine members' needs and what members, non-members, and former members want from ASAM.
• Save Money and Receive up to 21 CME Credits – attend ASAM’s 35th Annual Medical-Scientific Conference in Washington DC.

Medical Students: Reasons to join ASAM

• ASAM offers a special, discounted national membership for medical students and residents.  National Membership is FREE* for medical students and $35* for residents.  Membership is valid from the day you join until the end of the year.
• Free registration for residents and medical students to attend the Annual Medical-Scientific Conference.
• Receive discounts on ASAM publications and courses
• Discount on Revised Patient Placement Criteria (ASAM PPC-2R) – National Guidelines
• Free Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcoholism laminated pocket cards
• Representation in the AMA House of Delegates (including the Medical Student Section, the Residency Physician Section, and the Young Physician Section)
• Representation in deliberations of national accrediting organizations, including JCAHO
• Advocacy for comprehensive benefits for the treatment of addictive disorders, at full parity with benefits for the treatment of other medical disorders
• Involvement in the largest leading professional society actively seeking to define and expand the field of addiction medicine
• Access to a network of leading experts in the field; meet friends, colleagues, mentors, role models, admired experts, and more in ASAM
• FREE ASAM News (bimonthly), Journal of Addictive Diseases (quarterly), ASAM’s Annual Membership Directory
• Access tools to advocate for more effective national and state drug policies
• Formulate and execute the Society's policies and programs, through service in elective office, in Chapters, on committees, and in other ways
• Serve on future focus groups to determine members' needs and what members, non-members, and former members want from ASAM