October 27 - 29, 2009 Vancouver, BC

Wounded Souls and the Vulnerable Self is a three-day international conference that aims to address addiction pathology as it relates to traumatic experiences. The conference will examine questions of psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, concurrent disorders, substance type and route of ingestion, best evidence-based treatment and new discoveries in the area of trauma and addiction. These challenging questions and others will be addressed by an international group of clinicians, researchers, policy makers and students. The conference will be held at UBC at the First Nations Longhouse.

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