The Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program at SAMHSA provides help in an ever-growing list of venues. SBIRT is expanding to include the next generation of service providers through a new medical residency grant program.

2009 was an exciting time for the MOSBIRT team.  It was a time of new beginnings and transformations, much like what this New Year, 2010, brings.

Repeat offenders were more likely to consider change after 30-minute psychosocial intervention, study finds

  A major step toward the goal of a uniform set of quality standards for addiction treatment was recently achieved. The Treatment Research Institute (TRI) hosted representatives from 25 states, accrediting bodies and federal agencies to discuss implementation of the National Quality Forum (NQF) treatment standards.

Technical Assistance Publication (TAP) 31: Implementing Change in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs provides guidance on integrating evidence-based practices (EBPs) into substance abuse treatment programs.

This report was prepared by the Office of Applied Studies (OAS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and by RTI International (a trade name of Research Triangle Institute), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Work by RTI was performed under Contract No. 283-2004-00022.

College students who received Internet-based screening and brief interventions were less likely to drink alcohol, according to researchers from Australia and New Zealand.

University students drink more heavily than their nonstudent peers and are often unaware that their drinking is risky and exceeds normative levels. We tested the efficacy of a proactive Web-based alcohol screening and brief intervention program.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has released  Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State, and Local Budgets. The report found that addiction cost federal, State and local governments $467.7 billion in 2005. The Report includes State specific cost data for 45 States

For anyone who drinks, this site offers valuable, research-based information. What do you think about taking a look at your drinking habits and how they may affect your health?