DivisionOnAddictions.org
Title
Division on Addictions - Cambridge Health Alliance - Harvard Medical School
Description
The mission of the Division on Addictions at Cambridge Health Alliance, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School is to strengthen worldwide understanding of addiction through innovative research, education, and the global exchange of information. Our ultimate goal is to alleviate the individual, social, medical, and economic burdens caused by addictive behaviors. The Division will offer encouragement, education, and training to both the next generation of health care workers who treat addictive disorders and to scientists who study addiction. The Division will provide knowledge to public policy makers and the public alike. Finally, the Division will provide a message of compassion, tolerance, acceptance, and hope by representing Harvard's commitment to the advancement of addiction science.
In 1990, a Harvard Medical School planning committee recommended the creation of a Division on Addictions to direct the school's educational, medical and scientific resources toward alleviating the vast and complex array of public heath problems caused by addictive behaviors. It assigned the Division the task of coordinating research, education, training, and communication relevant to substance abuse at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and its primary affiliated teaching hospitals.
Now, the Division on Addiction's presence at Harvard is deepening and broadening both within and outside the university. The Division provides the critical links between the HMS students, the clinical and research scientists at Harvard's and other medical education communities, and the lay public. Through its continuing medical education, faculty development courses and fellowship training program, the Division is having a meaningful influence on the medical community. An increasing number of faculty are turning to the Division as a resource for contacts and information and asking the Division to help coordinate their addiction-related research. Through its public forums, public education activities, middle school curriculum development and high school student internship program, the Division is reaching communities outside of Harvard.
Languages
English
