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Screening for Substance Use

What Is SBIRT?

• SBIRT stands for Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment
• Evidence-based early intervention strategy
• Designed to identify and intervene with at-risk and high-risk users in the healthcare/hospital and other settings.
• The primary goal is not to identify alcohol – and drug-dependent individuals but to deliver brief intervention services and make referrals to treatment.

“The data from SBIRT is not merely impressive; within the framework of most medical interventions, the impact of SBIRT is astounding, knock-your-socks-off, nearly too good to be true . . . .” ~Timmen Cermak, M.D., California Society of Addiction Medicine¹ (http://www NULL.sassi NULL.com/news/sbirt NULL.html#quote)

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Adolescent Drug Screening Tool:

CRAFFT – 6 Questions self-reporting survey.

Developed by Children’s Hospital Boston specifically for use by physicians with adolescents.  The CRAFFT (http://www NULL.ceasar-boston NULL.org/CRAFFT/index NULL.php)is a behavioral health screening tool for use with children under the age of 21 and is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Committee on Substance Abuse for use with adolescents. It consists of a series of 6 questions developed to screen adolescents for high risk alcohol and other drug use disorders simultaneously. It is a short, effective screening tool meant to assess whether a longer conversation about the context of use, frequency, and other risks and consequences of alcohol and other drug use is warranted.

 

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