HealthDay News — A computer-facilitated screening system along with advice from primary care health providers (cSBA) can help combat substance abuse among adolescents, study results suggest. So they ...

Yamhill County Public Health introduces an online self-assessment for residents to evaluate their substance use.

A screening tool developed at Stony Brook University may be helping researchers identify women who might be at a higher risk of substance use while pregnant. The study, which reviewed medical charts ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Three screening tools had area under the curve values indicating high agreement for nicotine, alcohol and ...

SIMILAR INCIDENTS FROM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE. THE DARTMOUTH HEALTH IS DEVELOPING A FIRST OF ITS KIND DISORDER SCREENING ALGORITHM. IT’S DESIGNED TO BETTER PROVIDE BETTER TREATMENT FOR THOSE ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A new statewide assessment is set to find the best way to move forward with the fight against substance abuse in Kansas. The Sunflower Foundation says that it has chosen the ...

TRENTON — The chairman of the state Senate Health Committee has introduced legislation that would require public school districts, charter schools and nonpublic schools to provide annual substance-use ...

Although most clinicians caring for youths aged 17 years or younger reported screening for substance use disorders, many did not do so at every checkup, and 36.9% did not use a standardized screening ...

Substance use disorder is a treatable, chronic condition in which an individual has an addiction to using alcohol, tobacco, ...

After nearly a decade in and out of treatment for an addiction to opioids, a patient of Daniel Lewis, MD, told him she was finally ready for permanent recovery. "The day she said, 'That's it, I need ...