PC Addiction Medicine Clinic

UCSF PC Addiction Medicine Clinic

During your first PCAM visit, you can expect to speak with a clinician trained in working with people who use alcohol and/or other substances such as opiates/opioids, stimulants like methamphetamine, or weed/cannabis.

This clinician will ask questions about the substances you may use, your relationship to the substances, what role they play in your life, and if you're having any trouble or difficulty managing use. With your input, we can help determine if there is a substance use disorder or addiction to that substance present, (i.e. substance use despite health or life problems).

Based on this assessment conversation, we can then discuss what changes you'd like to make and how we can support you - whether that's scheduling a follow up appointment to check back in on your goals or discuss medication treatment options if you have a substance use disorder or addiction present. 

We may not have time to talk about each and every thing that is causing difficulties in your life, so we would encourage you to prioritize at the first visit the two most important things (for example, alcohol and cocaine or tobacco and fentanyl) that you want to discuss with your clinician.