Advocacy In Action
Addiction Medicine Advocacy Conference
Use your voice to shape addiction medicine policy. Join us in DC on September 15-16, 2025.
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The Addiction Medicine Advocacy Conference (AMAC) is a two-day, in-person advocacy event that convenes ASAM members and addiction medicine experts in Washington, DC, to advocate for advancements in addiction medicine policy.
This year's event will be held on September 15-16. On day one, attendees will receive training from expert advocacy professionals on policy issues important to the practice of addiction medicine. Day two will bring attendees to Capitol Hill, where they will meet with legislators and their staff to advance a policy agenda designed to support addiction treatment professionals as they care for patients and save lives.
Advocating to Advance Addiction Recovery
This year, ASAM is advocating for:
- The Modernizing Opioid Treatment Access Act (MOTAA), which would allow addiction specialist physicians to prescribe methadone for opioid use disorder treatment that could be picked up at community pharmacies, subject to federal rules or guidance on supply of methadone for unsupervised use.
- The Residential Recovery for Seniors Act (RRSA), which would create a Medicare Part A benefit for residential addiction treatment programs meeting nationally recognized standards, categorized as Level 3.1: Clinically Managed Low-intensity Residential Treatment; Level 3.5: Clinically Managed High-intensity Residential Treatment, and/or Level 3.7: Medically Managed Residential Treatment.
You can help us recruit support for these bills and advance addiction recovery! Send a message to your representatives here.
2025 Partners
ASAM welcomes our national advocacy partners:
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American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM)
2024 Highlights
AMAC 2024 convened over one hundred ASAM members and addiction medicine experts who participated in 155 meetings on Capitol Hill with policymakers and their staff.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire met with attendees and delivered in-person remarks outlining her addiction policy priorities. The Senator encouraged the group to share their personal stories and testimonies from the frontlines of the addiction crisis during their meetings on Capitol Hill. In a recorded video, U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana also addressed attendees and discussed The SUPPORT Reauthorization Act, which would expand access to evidence-based addiction care. Read more highlights from last year's event here and learn about the policy priorities here.
