Mission:
The purposes of the Society shall be to serve as a medium for physicians and medical students who are interested in addiction medicine; to facilitate the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge in all areas that pertain to addictive disease; to encourage high quality of care for people in Tennessee suffering from these problems; and to enlighten and inform medical and public opinion with regard to these issues. The Society will work with the parent organization, the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), to accomplish the goals of that organization especially as they relate to needs in the State of Tennessee.