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 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 ...

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 ...

SBIRT stands for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment, and it assists individuals with substance use or mental health issues into treatment. The model has been in practice for ...

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 ...

As we enter September and the annual recognition of National Recovery Month, it’s imperative to examine the tools at our disposal to combat the pervasive issue of substance use disorder (SUD). One ...

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 ...

Substance use disorders are a common sight for many healthcare professionals. Nurses and other professionals regularly see them in emergency rooms in the form of overdoses, liver failure and accidents ...

CHICAGO — Screening alone for alcohol use appears to garner long-term reductions in drinking frequency as well as binge drinking, new research show. Investigators found that a control group that ...