Screen for alcohol problems.
Health plans only diagnose 8 percent of people with alcohol problems. Diagnosis rates for other chronic diseases are between 60 and 75 percent. Effective screening is the answer. Employers can push health plans to screen and work with employee assistance programs to reach out to employees and family members.
Workplace SBI Toolkit
Ensuring Solutions is developing a new model for workplace screening and brief intervention.
Stone Soup: Behavioral Health Screening and Treatment in Primary Care
A cooperative effort to assess the feasibility and desirability of developing a broad-based national initiative to promote behavioral health screening, acute management, and ongoing care management in primary care and hospital care.
Changing Laws that Prevent Screening
Alcohol exclusion laws make it difficult for hospitals to identify and help people with alcohol problems.
Treating Alcohol Problems Early
People don't develop alcohol problems overnight. But like diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses, there are many opportunities to prevent and treat, or intervene, at an early stage.
Medical Education in Substance Abuse
The Third National Leadership Conference on Medical Education in Substance Abuse, hosted by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, brought together experts in the field of substance abuse to identify strategies for advancing physician training in SBI.