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Introduction and hypothesis Multiple links can be drawn between addiction and sexuality: desired initial effect followed by harmful impacts of psychoactive substances, risky sexual behavior and engaging in sexual violence, treatment of somatic and comorbid mental disorders, and hypersexuality. Addressing these issues appears to be a necessity in addictology. Group workshops have many advantages; however, the expectations of users and teams on this subject have yet to be explored. This study, entitled ACAPSA, aims to identify the expectations of patients and health care providers in an addictology unit on the content and organization of such workshops. Methods and materials In all, 35 patients and 35 care providers from the addictology unit at the Paris Seine-Saint-Denis university hospital took part in the study from April to July 2021. The patients answered a questionnaire containing 13 questions and the health care providers answered 16 questions about their previous experience of workshops regarding sexuality, their value, content, type (e.g., patient education, discussion groups), organizational methods (e.g., gender mix, number of facilitators and participants) as well as how comfortable they were leading such workshops. Results Most participants had neither facilitated nor attended such workshops and they considered them useful (80%). The proposed topics were chosen by more than 70% of the participants and were as follows: “Sexuality and products,” “Sexuality and treatments,” “Sexual violence,” “General information on sexuality,” and “Sexuality and psychiatric pathologies.” Organization preferences include patient education sessions or themed discussion groups with a mix of genders led by two trained professionals, who may or may not be known to the groups which, ideally, would contain 5 to 10 participants. In terms of how comfortable providers would be leading these groups, an average of 4.68/10 was noted. Conclusion This study provides a better understanding of the expectations and little-understood needs of patients and health care providers regarding the establishment of these workshops, and guides their implementation in healthcare settings, as a complement to the individual approach. A standard workshop, which takes account of the need to train professionals, is proposed.