title: Putting 'addiction' back into psychiatry: the RANZCP Section of Addiction Psychiatry.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the history and activities of the RANZCP Section of Addiction Psychiatry, as well as its current challenges and opportunities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From initial exclusion to an active and growing membership, the Section of Addiction Psychiatry continues to ensure that problematic substance use and gambling remain core issues within Australasian psychiatry. In addition to commenting and contributing to ongoing clinical and policy initiatives, the Section has recently introduced an advanced training curriculum and maintains a strong partnership with the relatively new Australasian Chapter of Addiction Medicine. Its active input into education, training, media and policy development within the College guarantees that psychiatry is represented within the addiction field, and that tomorrow's psychiatrists are competent to assess and treat comorbid addiction issues.
authors.affiliation: ORYGEN Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. dan.lubman@mh.org.au
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lubman
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jurd
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baigent
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Krabman
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000266:history* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D001315:Australia; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000639:trends; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D005715:Gambling; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000534:rehabilitation