HUNTINGTON -- Results from the first three years of a screening program for behavioral health and addiction issues are showing promising numbers, according to data presented Tuesday at Prestera Center ...

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 ...

Stepping up efforts to address the opioid crisis, Northwell Health expanded 'universal' drug screening to its children's hospital. As part of efforts for early detection and diagnosis of opioid ...

Although SBIRT is an acronym most people were unfamiliar with until Sen. Jennifer Flanagan’s recent push to screen public-school students as a tool to fight the state’s opioid epidemic, the program ...

New Jersey Citizen Action, with representatives from a South Jersey high school, is urging the Legislature to allow early health intervention for grades 9-12. Emeline Kovac, a junior at Bordentown ...

Actively drinking patients who undergo screening, a brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for alcohol use disorder during hospital admission for alcohol-related conditions have fewer ...

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 ...

This article appears in print in the May 2019 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s a small but alarming statistic. Among kids ages 10–24, suicide is the second-leading cause of death in King County.

Dr. Melissa Cheng joined the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health after her completion of residency in 2011. She graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine in ...