News & Events

Upcoming Events

May 15, 2024: Dr. Bonar will present a talk "Cannabis: Understanding the green wave in today's landscape" at the Spring Forum 2024: Substance Use and Addiction. Register here to attend (virtual or in-person).

Past Events

April 19, 2024: Dr. Bonar is presenting to the Michigan Medicine Virtual Care Team on "Virtual behavioral health strategies for preventing and treating substance use disorders." This talk is part of a series of sharing digital health research with clinician leads and project managers that work to improve the delivery of virtual care at Michigan Medicine.


April 11, 2024: Drs. Coughlin and Fernandez presented their talk, "Empowering change: Diverse digital solutions for addressing substance use across the lifespan," at the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference in Denver, CO.

April 11, 2024: Drs. Coughlin (far left) and Fernandez (second from left) with team members in front of their poster at the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference.

April 8, 2024: Dr. Bonar spoke on behalf of the study team, including MPI Maureen Walton, at the Heal Prevention Cooperative Meeting 2024 on the Future of Opioid Prevention.


March 14, 2024: Dr. Bonar presented a DEA training on cannabis use in adolescents titled, "New Highs: Understanding Cannabis Use in Today’s Youth and Young Adults" organized by the Michigan Opioid Collaborative.



February 23, 2024: Dr. Bonar presented a talk “Virtual behavioral health strategies for preventing and treating substance use disorders” to the Virtual Care Team and Michigan Medicine.


December 7, 2023: Dr. Bonar gave the presentation “A Growing Problem: The Green Wave of Cannabis in Michigan & Beyond” at the Michigan Prevention Association Burning Issues Conference.


November 14, 2023: Dr. Lin spoke at the Western Michigan University DEA/MATE Training: A Practical Approach to Addiction in our Community.


November 11, 2023: MI-ACRE and the Michigan Society of Addiction Medicine hosted the first “Advancing Addiction Care in Michigan Conference.” Speakers included Dr. Yngvild Olsen, the Director of addiction treatment at SAMHSA, Dr. Ellen Edens from Yale, and Dr. Nate Menke, director of the UM Addiction Consult Treatment service. We also welcomed special guests, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell and State Senator Sue Shink. 

Nov. 11, 2023: Congresswoman Debbie Dingell speaking at the Advancing Addiction Care in Michigan Conference.

Nov. 11, 2023: Dr. Nate Menke presenting "Management of Polysubstance Withdrawal" at the Advancing Addiction Care in Michigan Conference.

October 26, 2023: Dr. Fernandez presented a webinar on "Alcohol Use Disorders: Epidemiology and Clinical Best Practices" for the Michigan Opioid Collaborative.


October 20, 2023: Dr. Walton presented a poster as the Addiction Health Services Research Conference in New York which focused on collaborative work with Drs. Coughlin (PI) and Bonar, as well as Dr. Nahum-Shani affiliated with the Data-science for Dynamic Decision Making (d3C) at ISR, and colleagues from Harvard such as Dr. Murphy. The focus on the poster was describing a newly developed mobile health intervention, which is focused on reducing cannabis use and improving health among emerging adults who are regularly using cannabis.


October 19, 2023: Drs. Bonar and Lin presented their poster titled "Identifying, reaching, and engaging primary care patients in need of alcohol use disorder treatment: Early data from a remote randomized controlled trial" at the Addiction Health Services Research (AHSR) conference.


September 20, 2023: Dr. Bonar presented at the St. Clair County Recovery Summit about cannabis use and cannabis use disorder.


September 14, 2023: Dr. Coughlin presented “Sleep, Stress, and Substance Use – Where Do They Meet?” for Well Aware with Michigan Medicine. 

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