Adolescents

This Opioid Prevention Campaign toolkit translates the science of prevention into simple strategies parents and caregivers can incorporate into busy daily lives -- to do what we can to protect our kids from developing an addiction later in life.

Not sure where to start in implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for adolescents within your primary care setting? These on-demand modules breaks out the clinical components of the SBIRT process and introduce the Improving Adolescent Health: Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT change package.

Our newly-released on-demand modules, informed by the field-tested Improving Adolescent Health: Facilitating Change for Excellence in SBIRT Change Package, is a call to action for providers to advance YSBIRT approaches. Access our free on-demand train

This tool outlines a framework for implementing adolescent SBIRT within primary care. The framework includes operational guidance for adopting strategies to create optimal conditions for change, as well as clinical areas for action for SBIRT implementation. 

This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challen

This screening tool consists of frequency of use questions to identify risky substance use by adolescent patients. The accompanying resources assist clinicians in providing patient feedback and resources for follow-up. This tool is meant to be used under

This recommendation statement replaces the 2008 USPSTF recommendation, which concluded that the evidence at that time was insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for illicit drug use in adolescents and adults, including those

A trial of 3 SBIRT care modalities that demonstrated that adolescents who received SBIRT by either a primary care pediatrician or behavioral clinician were less likely to have substance use disorder diagnoses at 1 and 3 years

Highlights the findings of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network study that compared longer term versus short-term buprenorphine/naloxone treatment in an outpatient setting. Examines opioid use, treatment with buprenorphine, and further implications for young adults with opioid addiction.

Offers families information about treating adolescent OUD. Discusses 12 questions that families can ask treatment programs for adolescents with OUD.