Angela Antonikowski

Albany Medical College | AMC

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has recently begun to fund programs that train medical residents on how to utilize an evidence-based validated system known as Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for providing early detection and brief treatment of unhealthy substance use. This pape...

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), an evidence-based validated system for providing early detection and brief treatment of substance use disorders, has been widely used in the training of medical residents across specialties at a number of sites. This paper investigates the effectiveness of SBIRT training during short...