Topic: SBIRT
Hospital Follies
The notorious revolving door wasn’t entirely due to the patient’s desire to avoid change– the hospital couldn’t get them out the front door fast enough.
Topics: health care, intervention, SBIRT, stigma
Models of Addiction: The Medical Model
However necessary — and it is necessary — good acute care will never be enough to solve the problem of addictions.
Topics: alcoholism, health care, models of addiction, SBIRT
Intervention at the ER, Part 2
It isn’t that big a challenge; you simply add a basic questionnaire on the subject to your intake paperwork.
Topics: alcoholism, assessment, consequences, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
Intervention at the ER? Can it Work?
If we could reach them now, the process might well be interrupted. Preventing a host of more serious problems — some of them fatal to other people, or the user himself.
Topics: assessment, health care, intervention, physicians, SBIRT, signs and symptoms
