New research shows that SBIRT — screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for drug misuse — is effective at preventing substance use in adolescents in a variety of clinical settings. In ...

An intervention that was originally designed for adults in clinical treatment settings is being pitched as a school-based solution to the opioid crisis. To determine which students are using drugs or ...

Wayne State University has been awarded nearly $1 million to train social work and nursing students to assess patients in primary care settings for substance abuse behaviors. Feleta Wilson, associate ...

Unlike the Heroin SBIRT, the program only takes in those who come to the emergency room, which Kharfen says is an obstacle they are working to solve, because currently as many as half of people who ...

New Jersey state Sen. Joseph F. Vitale (D-Middlesex) in his Trenton Statehouse office. State legislators led by Sen. Vitale have introduced a package of 20 bills to combat the problem of drug ...

The National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation has published a study that shows pharmacies can be effective healthcare settings for identifying, educating and supporting linkage to treatment ...