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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s Long Island’s biggest substance problem: the opioid epidemic. To combat this dangerously growing issue, Cohen Children’s Medical Center (CCMC), the stand-alone children’s hospital of Northwell ...

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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 ...

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.

Q: What’s the problem with schools publicly releasing student data if it doesn’t have their names attached to it? Is that the only risk to student privacy? Apart from school districts publicly ...

Three years ago, 150-year-old Ascension Saint Agnes in Baltimore, part of a national Catholic health system, created the Saint Agnes Health Institute to address health care disparities and the social ...

Northwell Health in New Hyde Park, New York, is bringing a new approach to the way it responds to the opioid and substance use epidemic. Through a program called Pathways to Recovery, the health ...

PETOSKEY — In a partnership with Alcona Health Center, the Public Schools of Petoskey is introducing a new program to help find support and education — rather than discipline — for students who may ...