AMERSA National Conference 2026

The 2026 conference is held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC.

The organizer identifies clinicians, researchers, policymakers, educators, advocates, and people with lived and living experience as part of its audience.

It suits clinicians, researchers and educators working in substance use who want to hear across disciplines, since the attendee mix also takes in policymakers, advocates and people with lived experience, and the 50th edition has speakers such as Jeanmarie Perrone, MD and Michael G. McDonell, PhD. Readers looking for a product-driven expo or narrow procedural training would get less, because the program is built around education, research, care and policy in the addiction field.

Attendees at academic and clinical addiction conferences usually wear business casual, with some in suits for presentations; a layer helps for late-autumn weather in Washington DC and cool meeting rooms.