Implementation of substance use screening in rural federally-qualified health center clinics identified high rates of unhealthy alcohol and cannabis use among adult primary care patients

CONCLUSIONS: Self-administered EHR-integrated screening was feasible to implement, and detected substantial alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco use in rural FQHC clinics. Counseling was documented for a minority of patients with moderate-high risk use, possibly indicating a need for better support of primary care providers in addressing substance use. There is potential to broaden the reach of screening by offering it at routine medical visits rather than restricting to annual preventive care visits, within these and other rural primary care clinics.PMID:37726839 | PMC:PMC10510292 | DOI:10.1186/s13722-023-00404-y

Source: Addiction Science and Clinical Practice - September 19, 2023 Category: Addiction Authors: Jennifer McNeely Bethany McLeman Trip Gardner Noah Nesin Vijay Amarendran Sarah Farkas Aimee Wahle Seth Pitts Margaret Kline Jacquie King Carmen Rosa Lisa Marsch John Rotrosen Leah Hamilton Source Type: research