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 ...

Buy in-Gaining staff support and buy-in at both an organizational and community level is a key element in any implementation effort. Organizational leaders must provide resources and support 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 ...

This spring, the Washington Schools Risk Management Pool (WSRMP), which provides liability coverage to more than a third of the state’s school districts, stunned its members with an average premium ...

Substance abuse is a major preventable and treatable public health problem affecting all racial, cultural, and socioeconomic groups with the total annual economic costs to the United States estimated ...

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 ...