ACAAM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan

As of April 2025, the ACAAM Board of Directors reconfirmed the organization's commitment to the following actions, which are based on advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in all the organization does.

ACAAM will:

1. Commit to ongoing efforts to embrace diversity within the organization and act to promote an inclusive and equitable environment among the addiction medicine workforce. 
2. Maintain educational resources related to anti-racism, cultural competence, social disparities of health & social justice and highlight relevant issues within the ACAAM National Addiction Medicine Didactic Curriculum project.
3. Recruit and train students, residents, fellows and addiction specialists from minoritized populations in the addiction medicine workforce and pathways.
4. Support fellowships in developing rotations to learn about health disparities in the criminal justice system.
5. Receive, deliberate, and act upon reports and recommendations from the AR-DEI Committee.
6. Work with other health professional associations in promoting DEI across medical training and practice.
7. Support addiction medicine faculty development on these issues and promote diverse faculty representation within our programs.
8. Promote the principle of harm reduction and destigmatization of the chronic disease of addiction. 
9. Develop an organizational policy on these issues and commit to holding ourselves as addiction specialists and our colleagues accountable for small and large acts of discrimination.