The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has unveiled a new scientifically validated online screening tool that can help providers uncover patients' problem substance use. The Tobacco, Alcohol, ...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has launched NIDAMED, a collection of tools and resources to help primary-care clinicians screen patients for tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. The ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

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 ...

It’s time for doctors to start asking every patient, every time: Have you engaged in any illicit drug use? That’s the new advice from a panel of public health experts who examined whether a primary ...

The usefulness of many screening instruments for alcohol-use disorders may be limited to certain populations. New research compares the performance of a two short screening instruments, RAPS4 and CAGE ...

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