Presidential Letter Between Declarations and Dreams
Dear friends and members,
We are very close to the end of this year 2024, in which I have received your support to preside over our scientific society until 2027. Thank you very much. I hope to live up to your trust.
Among our achievements, we are very proud of our past 8th annual congress in Mallorca, Spain, with almost 2000 attendees from 27 different countries.
Recently, at the invitation of WPA President Dr. Danuta Waserman, we introduced our scientific society, the WADD, at the Psychiatry World Congress in Mexico City, where we shared our message of integrating mental health and avoiding the ‘wrong door syndrome’ for our patients and their families.
We have also achieved the ‘Agreement of the Americas’, which we have signed together with the most prestigious scientific societies focused on mental health, such as the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the Latin American Psychiatric Association (APAL) and WARMI. Our first joint initiative will be to share the award in tribute to Pedro Ruiz.
Next year our annual congress, a joint meeting with the Canadian Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (CAAP), will be held September 4-6 in Vancouver. I look forward to seeing you all, face to face, in that beautiful city.
In 2025 it will be 10 years since the creation of the WADD, chaired by our deeply missed friend and colleague Pedro Ruiz. I am sure that one of his dreams was to see the WADD recognized as a scientific society of worldwide prestige.
Together we will make it possible and thus be able to help so many people suffering from addictions and other mental disorders and their families.
Using scientific evidence provided by clinical neuroscience and the achievement of precision psychiatry, will continue to transform healthcare for people with dual disorders in the coming decades.
My Best Wishes to all.
Nestor Szerman
Professor Danuta Waserman, WPA president & Dr. Nestor Szerman, WADD President
WADD ANNUAL CONGRESS WADD-CAAP Congress Vancouver September,
4th to 6th 2025
Professor Celso Arango, WADD honorary member, has been appointed as New Member of the National Academy of Medicine of the USA
The Designation of this Membership has been awarded for facilitating the change in FDA, and EMA policies for psychotropic drugs for pediatric indications. He was influential in facilitating regulatory agency policy changes requiring companies to conduct pediatric investigations as part of a new drug’s development. He has led 15 clinical trials in the prevention and treatment of mental disorders in children and adolescents.
WADD keeps growing, we have to celebrate the creation of two new National committees from Austria and Hungary, and welcome to the new Chair of the Argentinian National Committee.
• Creation of the Hungarian Associaton of Dual Disorders. Click here
• Creation of the Austrian Associaton of Dual Disorders. Click here
• Creation of the Argentina New WADD National Committee. Click here
Photos SEPD-WADD Congress Mallorca 2024
If you attended the joint WADD and SEPD Congress held in Mallorca last April, you can now search the event's photo gallery. You can search by day and by room.
Next Congresses and related educational activities
2025 February: ISAM Annual Conference 2025. Click here
2025 April: 2025 WADD Regional Italian National Committee meeting. Toscana. Click here
2025 June: 2025 Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of D. D. Sociedad Española de Patología Dual, 4-7 June. Madrid. Click here
2025 June: 2025 Albatros Congress. 10-12 June. Paris. Click here
2025 September: WADD-CAAP Congress Vancouver September, 4th to 6th 2025. Click here
2025 October: 25th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry, 5-8 October. Click here
2024 Past Events of interest
4th National and 3rd Latin American and Caribbean Congress on Dual Disorders 26, 27 & 28 de September 2024 Manizales – Colombia.Click here
Meeting of the Chair of the Regional Committee of Spanish-speaking countries of the WADD & members of the Colombian Association of Dual Disorders ASODUAL. Click here
Jofre Workshop: Educational Programme for Residents (only in Spanish).Click here
The 28th Alcoholics Anonymous World Service Conference in Washington was attended by Aris Ramos from Panama .Click here
Scientific Window
WADD Members last publications
Tobacco use disorder in patients with other mental disorders: a dual disorder perspective from clinical neuroscience
Individual Trajectories of Specialist Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health Treatment Utilization Among Young Adults With Substance Use Problems: A Cohort Study
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