Conference Schedule

Monday: Pre-Conference with Shatterproof

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8:00am - 10:45am

10:45am - 11:00am

11:00am - 5:00pm

Registration & Networking

Opening & Pre-Conference Welcome with Shatterproof

Pre-Conference Workshop with Shatterproof (Additional Registration Required)

Registration & Networking

IntNSA First-Time Conference Attendee & New Member Orientation

Welcome & Opening

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Megan Thurman

Break Out Session I Options

• A Better Way: Living and Lived experience as critical advisors for improving innovation in post-overdose clinical care AND Mind the baby, Mind the parent. Results from a study to examine parenting among those who use substances 

• Testing a Tailored Digital Support Intervention for Pregnant Women in Addiction Recovery AND Exploring Barriers and Facilitators to Women’s Recovery Capital as it Relates to Sex Work and Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy

• Advancing Equity in Medication Assisted Treatment for Black Men AND Barriers, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Black Men’s Engagement in Seeking Opioid Use Treatment

Lunch On Your Own or With Colleagues

1:00pm - 1:55pm

Session II Options

• Meeting the Substance Use Disorder Treatment Needs of Autistic People AND Understanding Autism Spectrum Condition and Substance Use Disorders: Rethinking Treatment Fit, Function, and Complexity in AUD, OUD and CUD

• Caring Within Constraints: Maternity Providers’ Moral Experiences Caring for Perinatal Women with Opioid Use Disorder Care AND Enhancing Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes Through Perinatal Opioid Use Disorder Symposiums: Evidence from Provider Education Initiatives

• Developing and Disseminating Open-Access Substance Use Education for Nurses (Advanced Practice nurses Opioid Use Disorder Massive Open Online Course (APROUD-MOOC) AND Driving Change Through Compassionate Addiction Research and Education (CARE)

2:00pm - 2:55pm

• Parents who inject drugs: Assessing the impact of a safe injecting facility on children and young people in a disadvantaged community AND Improving access and uptake of treatment services for substance using adolescents

• Nurse-Led Group-Based Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) in an Office-Based Opioid Treatment Program AND Patient advocacy and coordination of care for patients with substance use disorders: Clinical insights, opportunities, challenges, and best practices Substance Use Problems: Perspectives of Employee Assistance Professionals

• Reducing Opioid Overdose Deaths in Clallam County AND Identifying Barriers to Helping Nursing with Substance Use Problems: Perspectives of Employee Assistance Professionals

3:00pm - 3:55pm

Japan Panel: "The Current State of Addiction and Nursing in Japan"

4:00pm - 4:55pm

FIAAN Induction Ceremony

5:00pm - 5:55pm

Welcome Reception & Poster Presentations

6:00pm - 7:00pm

FIAAN Meeting

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

8:00am - 9:00am

9:00am - 9:55am

10:00am - 10:55am

Registration & Networking

Keynote Speaker: Michelle Byron

Session IV Options

• Using Nurse-Led MOUD Teams In the Hospital Setting for Early Recognition and Treatment of OUD AND ScalaNW: Expanding Access to MOUD in Acute Care Settings

• Use of weekly injectable long acting buprenorphine to decrease discomfort and withdrawal symptoms while initiating buprenorphine in the outpatient setting AND Meeting Complexity With Consistency: Long-Acting Buprenorphine for High-Risk Populations

• Building Confidence: Medical-Surgical Nurses and the Care of Patients with Opioid Use Disorders AND Clinical Realities: Reflecting on What I Have Learned from Patients

11:00am - 11:55am

• Age and Experience as Antecedents to Substance Use–Related Licensure Discipline in Nurses: Implications for Equity and Workforce Policy AND Workplace Policies and Cross-System Collaboration to Support Nurses with Substance Use Disorders

• Equipping the Nursing Workforce: NP and RN Roles in Administering Long-Acting Injectables for OUD AND Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine—An Effective, Equitable, and Underutilized Approach to MOUD

• Global nurse prescribing for opioid use disorder: A scoping review AND Nurse Prescribing of Opioid Agonist Treatment in Ireland: Evidence, Governance, and the Politics of Drug Policy Decision-Making

12:00pm - 12:55pm

1:00pm - 1:55pm

2:00pm - 2:55pm

Lunch

Panel Discussion: Zero Overdose

Session VI Options

• A Morality Shift in Nursing: Reframing Ethics Through Humanity and Harm Reduction AND Addiction Nurses as Agents of Social Justice: Ethical Boundary-Work, Advocacy, and System Reform in Stigmatised Care Environments

• Beyond the Badge Harm Reduction: Law Enforcement Simulation in Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Administration AND DEA Compliance: Ensuring compliance in an Narcotic Treatment Program setting

• From Data to Action: Culturally Responsive OD2A Strategies for Behavioral Health Providers AND No Bad Patients: Understanding substance use disorders from a trauma informed lens
  

3:00pm - 3:55pm

4:00pm - 4:55pm

5:00pm - 5:30pm

5:30pm - 7:00pm

North America Panel Discussion: "Global Perspectives on Addiction Nursing: Regional Realities, Workforce Challenges and Future Directions"

Keynote: IJAN with Adam Searby

Poster Presentations

JAN Editorial Board Meeting

8:00am - 9:30am

9:30am - 10:55am

11:00am - 11:55am

Registration & Networking

Annual Business Meeting and IFAN Updates with Phyllis Raynor

Session VII Options

• Providing Tobacco Cessation Care in an Addiction Clinic: Needs, Barriers, Facilitators, & Strategies AND What is the better way to screen vaping? A Systematic review

• Diverse Clinician Perspectives on Managing Buprenorphine Following the Removal of the DATA 2000 Waiver AND A New Approach - Integration of LAI Buprenorphine Induction in an Eastern Washington Emergency Department - A Pilot Project "How To"

• Bridging Addiction Medicine and Psychiatric Emergency Services: A Trauma-Informed, Harm Reduction Approach to Complex Co-Occurring Crises AND Implementing the OPTIONS-DC Model: Enhancing multidisciplinary care and harm reduction for hospitalized patients with Substance Use Disorders and serious infections
  

12:00pm - 1:55pm

2:00pm - 2:55pm

Awards Ceremony & Lunch

Session VIII Options

• Leveraging State Policies and Programs for Low-Barrier Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine: A Quality Improvement Innovation Using Rapid-Start Protocols AND Dissociative Substance Use Reported on StreetRx (2013–2024): Global Patterns and Clinical Considerations

• Awareness and Factors Influencing Utilization of Mental Health Screening Tools among Nurses at Obstetric and Gyneacology Department in a North Central Teaching Hospital AND Perinatal Kratom Exposure

• Promoting Safety: A Harm Reduction Farmer's Market AND Innovative, Patient-Centered MAT: Integrating Clinic, Mobile, and Community-Based Services for High-Risk Populations
  

3:00pm - 3:55pm

Session IX Options

• Nurses Leading Change: A Faculty-Led Immersive Practice Experience Bridging the Know-Do Gap in Opioid Use Disorder Care AND Talking Circle Intervention for the Prevention and Reduction of Substance Use among Native American/Indigenous Youth

• An Opioid Use Disorder Intervention for Professionals: Building Competency and Training Networks Through One-Day Symposiums AND Reimagining Addiction Care: Nursing Competencies for Psychedelic-Assisted Treatment

• Emerging Drugs and Substance Abuse in Nursing AND Nursing Students and Cannabis Care: A Synthesis of Attitudes, Knowledge, and Educational Needs