The Black Sheep of Addiction: Integrating Tobacco Control into Substance Use Disorder Programming

This webinar explores how tobacco and nicotine use disorder is often positioned outside the core language, workflows, and expectations of SUD services, even as recovery-oriented care has matured across other substances.

While addiction is increasingly understood as a chronic, treatable condition with nonlinear trajectories, tobacco and nicotine cessation is frequently framed as a secondary issue or deferred concern rather than a core clinical priority. The result is misalignment across screening practices, clinical accountability, and recovery narratives, with tobacco use remaining normalized within systems intended to support long-term wellbeing.