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Our Awareness Gap of Addiction and “S-BIRT”

August 1st, 2008 by CNS

70-80% of people who meet the clinically accepted diagnostic criteria for substance abuse do not believe they have a problem. To increase people’s understanding and acceptance of the issues they are facing, “S-BIRT”, Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment has been shown to be very valuable tool. The brief intervention alone, just 5-10 minutes of evaluation and education about drugs (including alcohol and tobacco), drug use and the impact on people’s health and lives, has been shown in studies to have an effect of reducing drug use by up to 50%.

 
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This entry was posted on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pm and is filed under Podcasts, Treatment & Testing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Our Awareness Gap of Addiction and “S-BIRT””

  1. education teaching says:
    November 10, 2008 at 12:26 am

    education teaching…

    Interestingly, this was on CNN last week….

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