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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the face of the global pandemic, a key first step in returning to normalcy involves contact tracing: identifying who has COVID-19, who has been exposed to the novel coronavirus, and who is immune ...

Carilion Clinic recently started training medical providers how to spot potential substance abuse early on. Most patients will not notice a significant difference from the usual questions they’re ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Mental health and substance abuse are among the top health-related issues in the South Shore community, according to Barton Health’s 2018 Community Health Needs Assessment.

BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- A Bucks County police department is piloting a new program designed to get people into a drug addiction treatment program more quickly by using ...

Approximately 15 percent of teens receiving routine outpatient medical care in a New England primary care network had positive results on a substance abuse screening test, according to a report in the ...