Save the date for APSAD 2026!

8-11 November 2026

Storytelling Shapes Us: Community, Clinical, Research, Healing

We are looking forward to seeing you next November at the Esplanade Hotel Walyalup (Fremantle) on the lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, WA, Australia. Registration and abstract submission opening soon!

Plan ahead:

Abstract Open: March 2026

Scholarship Applications Open: March 2026

Registration Open: March 2026

Super Early Bird Deadline: 29 March 2026

Abstract Deadline: 27 April 2026

Scholarship Application Deadline: 27 April 2026

Early Bird Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026

Accommodation Deadline: 28 September 2026

Meet the 2026 Convenors

Grace Oh

Australian Drug Education & Consultancy

Jodie Grigg

National Drug Research Institute & enAble Institute,

Curtin University

Paul Dessauer 

Harm Reduction WA

Stephen Bright

Edith Cowan University and WA Assistant

Commissioner for AOD

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APSAD acknowledges that the conference is being held on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. APSAD acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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