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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sophia Mercado, who battled addiction as a high school student, said Thursday that she felt no one at her public school understood the signs of addiction or how to help a young person struggling with ...

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 ...

With opioid and other substance abuses creating public health emergencies state- and nation-wide, the University and Rhode Island Hospital have received grants from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental ...

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 ...

ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) — The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol programs secretary was in Altoona on Tuesday. Jennifer Smith met with Altoona physicians to receive feedback from last year's ...