Welcome to IntNSA
The International Nurses Society on Addictions (IntNSA) is a professional specialty organization founded in 1975 for nurses committed to the prevention, intervention, treatment, and management of addictive disorders including alcohol and other drug dependencies, nicotine dependencies, eating disorders, dual and multiple diagnosis, and process addictions such as gambling.
Active membership is open to all registered professional nurses. Graduate or undergraduate student nurses are encouraged to join and vote but cannot hold an office.
For more information about joining IntNSA, please click here.
IntNSA Policy Committee Updates
IntNSA along with 47 other nursing organizations signed onto a letter supporting increased funding for Title VIII Nursing Education and Training Programs at HRSA. The House Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS) Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee proposed $292 million for nursing education and training in their draft Fiscal Year FY 2011 bill. Our letter is asking for the related Senate Subcommittee do the same thing. Through the “Nursing Community” (a coalition of nursing organizations that works together to advance all nursing issues) we were successful in getting an increase for these programs from $170 million in FY2009 to $242 million for FY 2010. We are now seeking another increase in these programs to $292 million for FY 2011. These programs are currently very underfunded so we have been seeking incremental increases to get them closer to the levels where they should be but they are still woefully behind. We will continue to seek increases year after year until the programs are properly funded.View the full letter here
IntNSA attended The Pain Care Forum meeting in July where the guest speaker was Dr. Tom McLellan, Deputy Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Dr. McLellan talked about the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy and other items of interest to the group during his interactive presentation. He requested that the organizations write him to comment on our mutual interests. We mentioned, that the Pain Care Forum’s purpose is to create an environment in which diverse groups, including pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, health care professional organizations, groups who advocate for people in pain, palliative care organizations, State regulators, and drug abuse prevention groups, air views on topics of concern to our organizations, to foster consensus development when possible, and to articulate issues of concern. The letter serves both as an introduction to the issues of our organizations and to find ways we can work collaboratively with the ONDCP.
The attached is the letter that was sent to Dr. McLellan including those organizations that signed onto it.
