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The October 2025 ICUDDR Newsletter is here! 🎉

This issue features our upcoming webinar, “Treatment of Justice Involved Clients with SUDs: What Works and How to Make it Work,” presented by Dr. Igor Koutsenok, ICUDDR Board Vice President.

We’re also celebrating our first-ever In Focus article in Spanish 🇪🇸 and the launch of our 21 student cohort in the new online Universal Nursing Addiction Curriculum (UNAC) course.

Read the full issue for these stories and more from our global network ➡️
🔗 https://icuddr.org/resource/october-2025-icuddr-newsletter/

🌎 In Focus: The Impact of Foreign Assistance Cuts on the Substance Use Workforce

Recent funding cuts to international programs have led to significant disruptions—reducing services, limiting resources, and deepening inequities, especially for lower-income patients.

This important study, written by ICUDDR, NECPAM, and ISAM members, sheds light on these challenges and calls for strategies to preserve hard-won progress in global substance use care.

🔍 Read the full article on page 8 of our September Newsletter:
👉 https://icuddr.org/resource/september-2025-icuddr-newsletter/

Special thanks to former ICUDDR Executive Director, Dr. Kimberly Johnson, and ICUDDR Student Intern, Jan-Cedric Rojahn, for their leadership on this study.



International Society of Addiction Medicine
Network of Early Career Professionals working the area of Addiction Medicine (NECPAM) https://necpam.co/

🎉Meet tomorrow's webinar presenter: Dr. Ashley Helle

Ashley C. Helle, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist (MO), and Director for Engagement at the Missouri Center for Addiction Research and Engagement (MO-CARE).

Dr. Helle’s research uses dissemination and implementation (D&I) science to improve how evidence-based substance use prevention and treatment programs are adopted and sustained. Her work centers on collaboration with community stakeholders—those on the front lines delivering prevention and treatment across the lifespan.

👉Join Dr. Helle tomorrow, October 15 at 8:30 AM US Eastern / 1:30 PM UTC, as she explores how implementation science can strengthen alcohol and substance use prevention and treatment in higher education.

🔗 Register for the webinar now: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JUEKiFT0QwyPhrmP_Z37rQ #/registration

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