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Study design to evaluate cognitive behavioral therapy among a diverse sample of adults with a first-time DUI offense

Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol is a major public health concern, and many individuals continue to drink and drive even after being convicted of a DUI offense. Latinos, in particular, are dispropo...

Authors: Karen Chan Osilla, Katherine E. Watkins, Magdalena Kulesza, Karen Flórez, Marielena Lara-Greenberg and Jeremy N. V. Miles

Study protocol for a web-based personalized normative feedback alcohol intervention for young adult veterans

Young adult veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a population at-risk for heavy and problematic alcohol use. Unfortunately, few seek treatment for alcohol concerns and those that do seek c...

Authors: Eric R. Pedersen, Grant N. Marshall and Terry L. Schell

Acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers 2015

Authors: Jeffrey H. Samet

A computer-assisted motivational social network intervention to reduce alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors among Housing First residents

Individuals transitioning from homelessness to housing face challenges to reducing alcohol, drug and HIV risk behaviors. To aid in this transition, this study developed and will test a computer-assisted interv...

Authors: David P. Kennedy, Sarah B. Hunter, Karen Chan Osilla, Ervant Maksabedian, Daniela Golinelli and Joan S. Tucker

Management of patients with issues related to opioid safety, efficacy and/or misuse: a case series from an integrated, interdisciplinary clinic

Patients, providers, communities and health systems have struggled to achieve balance between access to opioid treatment for chronic pain and its potential harmful consequences: especially misuse, addiction an...

Authors: William C. Becker, Jessica S. Merlin, Ajay Manhapra and Ellen L. Edens

Finding harmony so the music plays on: pragmatic trial design considerations to promote organizational sustainment of an empirically-supported behavior therapy

Pragmatic trials of empirically-supported behavior therapies may inform clinical and policy decisions concerning therapy sustainment. This retrospective trial design paper describes and discusses pragmatic fea...

Authors: Bryan Hartzler, K. Michelle Peavy, T. Ron Jackson and Molly Carney

Implementation of integrated stepped care for unhealthy alcohol use in HIV clinics

Effective counseling and pharmacotherapy for unhealthy alcohol use are rarely provided in HIV treatment settings to patients. Our goal was to describe factors influencing implementation of a stepped care mode...

Authors: E. Jennifer Edelman, Nathan B. Hansen, Christopher J. Cutter, Cheryl Danton, Lynn E. Fiellin, Patrick G. O’Connor, Emily C. Williams, Stephen A. Maisto, Kendall J. Bryant and David A. Fiellin

Physician versus non-physician delivery of alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment in adult primary care: the ADVISe cluster randomized controlled implementation trial

Unhealthy alcohol use is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and injury. The US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended alcohol screening and intervention in general medical settings sin...

Authors: Jennifer R. Mertens, Felicia W. Chi, Constance M. Weisner, Derek D. Satre, Thekla B. Ross, Steve Allen, David Pating, Cynthia I. Campbell, Yun Wendy Lu and Stacy A. Sterling

Feasibility of a computer-assisted alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment program for DWI offenders

Alcohol use patterns that are hazardous for one’s health is prevalent among DWI (driving while intoxicated) offenders and is a key predictor of recidivism. The aim of this program evaluation was to determine t...

Authors: Jillian Mullen, Stacy R. Ryan, Charles W. Mathias and Donald M. Dougherty

Health evaluation and referral assistant: a randomized controlled trial to improve smoking cessation among emergency department patients

Computer technologies hold promise for implementing tobacco screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT). This study aims to evaluate a computerized tobacco SBIRT system called the Health E...

Authors: Edwin D. Boudreaux, Beau Abar, Brianna Haskins, Brigitte Bauman and Grant Grissom

A qualitative study of treatment-seeking heroin users in contemporary China

Heroin has emerged as the primary drug of concern in China, with as many as three million contemporary users. Once a Chinese citizen has been identified by Chinese law enforcement as a ‘drug addict’, that indi...

Authors: Anna Lembke and Niushen Zhang

Predictive validity of two process-of-care quality measures for residential substance use disorder treatment

In order to monitor and ultimately improve the quality of addiction treatment, professional societies, health care systems, and addiction treatment programs must establish clinical practice standards and then ...

Authors: Alex H. S. Harris, Shalini Gupta, Thomas Bowe, Laura S. Ellerbe, Tyler E. Phelps, Anna D. Rubinsky, John W. Finney, Steven M. Asch, Keith Humphreys and Jodie Trafton

Substance use disorder treatment retention and completion: a prospective study of horse-assisted therapy (HAT) for young adults

Keeping substance use disorder patients actively engaged in treatment is a challenge. Horse-assisted therapy (HAT) is increasingly used as a complementary therapy, with claimed motivational and other benefits ...

Authors: Ann Kern-Godal, Espen Ajo Arnevik, Espen Walderhaug and Edle Ravndal

Impact of hepatitis C status on 20-year mortality of patients with substance use disorders

The magnitude of the effect of hepatitis C viral infection on survival is still not fully understood. The objective of this study was to determine whether the presence of hepatitis C viral antibodies in 1991 w...

Authors: Anthony J. Accurso, Darius A. Rastegar, Sharon R. Ghazarian and Michael I. Fingerhood

Contribution of BDNF and DRD2 genetic polymorphisms to continued opioid use in patients receiving methadone treatment for opioid use disorder: an observational study

The heritability of opioid use disorder has been widely investigated; however, the influence of specific genes on methadone treatment outcomes is not well understood. The association between response to methad...

Authors: Monica Bawor, Brittany B. Dennis, Charlie Tan, Guillaume Pare, Michael Varenbut, Jeff Daiter, Carolyn Plater, Andrew Worster, David C. Marsh, Meir Steiner, Rebecca Anglin, Dipika Desai, Lehana Thabane and Zainab Samaan

Incorporating validated alcohol and drug screening instruments in the electronic health record

Authors: George Allen Tindol Jr, Krista Gonzales, Kasra Sedarati and Cara Smith

Screening and brief intervention for low risk drug use in primary care: a pilot randomized trial

Authors: Richard Saitz, Seville M Meli, Tibor P Palfai, Debbie Cheng, Daniel P Alford, Judith A Bernstein, Jeffrey H Samet, Christine A Lloyd-Travaglini and Christine E Chaisson

Collaborative implementation of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment within the medical community of Blair County, PA

Authors: Janice Pringle and Sherry Rickard-Aasen

Challenges and opportunities in alcohol screening and brief interventions in new settings: A Narrative Review of Implementation Initiatives

Authors: Niamh Fitzgerald

A step-by-step guide for implementing alcohol screening & brief intervention in primary care: pilot & evaluation in three U.S. settings

Authors: Elizabeth Dang, Daniel Hungerford and Nancy Cheal

What predicts the severity of alcohol use and related problems among young people presenting to emergency department or crisis support care?

Authors: Catherine A Quinn and Leanne Hides

Utilization of standardized patients and case studies to evaluate effect of SBIRT training for APRN's

Authors: Deborah MacMillan, Sheryl Winn, Sallie Coke, Annie Biers and Sylvia Shellenberger

Developing an implementation strategy for SBIRT in general hospital: first phase

Authors: Alejandro Sánchez and Xóchitl de San Jorge

Vida PURA: results from a pilot test of culturally adapted screening and brief intervention for Latino day laborers

Authors: India Ornelas, Bonnie Duran and Dennis Donovan

Value of saliva testing when added to questionnaire screening for unhealthy drug use

Authors: H John Saade, Anthony Dedea, Lauren Dedea, Jason Dhabliwala, Andrea T Pusser, J Aaron Johnson and J Paul Seale

Computer self-administered screening for substance use in a university health center: a feasibility pilot

Authors: Jennifer McNeely, Ferdschneider Marcy, J Allison Smith, Sleiter Luke, Ciotoli Carlo and Leonard Noelle

The impact of billing/reimbursement structures on the integration of aSBI into primary care practice: implementation experiences at five different types of clinics

Authors: Joyce Hartje, Carolyn Edney and Nancy Roget

Interprofessional approaches to integrating SBIRT into students' clinical experiences

Authors: Heather Gotham, Sarah Knopf-Amelung, Ile Haggins, Jolene Lynn, Pam Young, Ronalda Manney and Kendall Kohnle

Preliminary research in preparation for a randomized trial of brief intervention strategies for adolescents in school-based health centers.

Authors: Jan Gryczynski, Robert P Schwartz, Shannon G Mitchell, Letitia Dzirasa, Kristi Dusek, Kevin O'Grady and Alexander Cowell

Harm-reduction goals and safer-drinking strategies among individuals attending a new drop-in center

Authors: Véronique S Grazioli, SE Collins, S Paroz, C Graap and J-B Daeppen

Alcohol screening a brief intervention: a self-paced program for nurses

Authors: Deborah Finnell, Ann M Mitchell, Christine L Savage, Irene Kane, Robert Kearns, Nathan Poole, Hilda Rizzo-Busack and Scott Coulson

The role of change facilitators in the implementation of alcohol SBI with public health nurses

Authors: Sherilyn Faulkner, Diane K King, Rebecca Porter and Bridget Hanson

The implementation in Europe (EU) of the drinking guidelines for the Early Identification and Brief Interventions (EIBI) for Hazardous and Harmful Alcohol Consumption (HHAC): results from the RARHA survey

Authors: Emanuele Scafato, Ghirini Silvia, Gandin Claudia and Galluzzo Lucia

Financial sustainability of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment programs in emergency department settings (part of Economics of SBI symposium)

Authors: Alexander J Cowell and William N Dowd

Brief motivational intervention for adolescents treated in emergency departments for acute alcohol intoxication - a randomized-controlled trial

Authors: Silke Diestelkamp, Nicolas Arnaud, Lutz Wartberg, Anne Daubmann and Rainer Thomasius

Implementing Screening and Brief Intervention in Community Pharmacies to Improve Medication Adherence

Authors: Janice Pringle, Annette D Boyer, Mark H Conklin and Arnie Aldridge

How digital interventions on screening and BI might be applied to psychiatric ED settings

Authors: Frederic C Blow and Kristen Lawton Barry

Factors associated with alcohol use among minority female adolescents receiving preventive text messaging for underage drinking

Authors: Meenal Sawant, MM Hospital, EF Wagner, SL Morris and LM Siqueira

“The intervention piece…that's still the hardest part of it all.” Enhancing brief intervention skills among public health nurses

Authors: Rebecca Porter, B Hanson, S Faulkner and D King

Alcohol-related risk perception in primary care patients screening positive for unhealthy alcohol consumption

Authors: Gallus Bischof, Anja Bischof, Christian Meyer and Hans-Jueegen Rumpf

Implementation of single-item alcohol screening and brief intervention in a primary care clinic in western Colorado

Authors: Kelly Marzano and Carolyn Swenson

Optimizing alcohol screening according to DSM-5 severity by adaptive testing using the AUDIT

Authors: Gallus Bischof, Anja Bischof, Christian Meyer and Hans-Juergen Rumpf

Screening and brief counseling among young adults: comparison of college students, community college students, and persons not in school

Authors: Ralph Hingson, Wenxing Zha, Aaron White and Bruce Simons-Morton

Drinking motives and alcohol intervention for patients with HIV

Authors: Jennifer C Elliott, Efrat Aharonovich, Ann O'Leary and Deborah S Hasin

Implementing digital interventions in psychiatric outpatient units: a qualitative analysis of staff attitudes

Authors: Anne H Berman, Ann-Sofie Bakshi, Kristina Sinadinovic and Christopher Sundström

Screening for alcohol consumption for a worker health intervention

Authors: Riany Brites and Ângela Maria Mendes de Abreu

Formative content development and evaluation of a text message intervention for excessive alcohol consumption among university students.

Authors: Preben Bendtsen, Catharina Linderoth and Ulrika Mussener

Mental health and substance misuse 7 years following an Emergency Department admission for alcohol intoxication

Authors: A Adam, M Faouzi, B Yersin, P Bodenmann, JB Daeppen and N Bertholet

Screening of problems related to alcohol, tobacco and cannabis in primary care settings: a comparative study between Brazil and Portugal

Authors: Angela Abreu, Rafael T Jomar, Rafaela Costa, Rachel FS Figueiro, Maria Helena N Silva, Pedro Parreira and Teresa Barroso

Health benefits from moderate drinking: a critical review

Authors: Sven Andreasson, Tanya Chikritzhs, Frida Dangardt, Harold Holder, Timothy Naimi and Tim Stockwell