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Overview: The purpose of this series is to provide healthcare professionals the opportunity to learn how to care for themselves and their patients during challenging times. Each session is intended to address Nevada specific CME requirements related to ethics, SBIRT, and suicide prevention.
The SBIRT for Health Professionals ECHO provides community health professionals with the training and support they need to manage substance use issues within health settings specializing in treating pregnant and non-pregnant persons of reproductive age populations using an SBIRT model. This program will include an expert specialist team and interdisciplinary clinicians and other health professionals in local Nevada communities. The series will include six weekly tele-ECHO clinics that include a didactic presentation, combined with patient case presentations and mentoring.
Adopt SBIRT serves Nevada with expertise and key resources to assist organizations to promote, prepare, adopt, and implement SBIRT.
This website from SAMHSA provides information on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment, which it describes as “an approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment to people with substance use disorders and those at risk of developing these disorders.”
The Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) for Alcohol and Opioid/Substance Use Professionals course is designed as a comprehensive evidence-based approach for facilitating conversations between patients/clients and healthcare providers in medical and community health settings regarding alcohol and opioid/substance use. The course includes a didactic component on the topics of: Substance use among adults, adolescents, and pregnant persons; Substance use and mental health; categories of substance use; SBI cost effectiveness, Screening tools; Brief Intervention; Core motivational interviewing skills; and Referral to treatment. In addition, demonstrations on how to use SBI with patients/clients for both alcohol and opioid/substance use are provided.
Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is designed to provide universal screening, secondary prevention (detecting risky or hazardous substance use before the onset of abuse or dependence), and early intervention and treatment within health care settings for people who have problematic or hazardous alcohol problems. Nevada’s Train, Educate, Adopt & Collaborate for Healthcare SBIRT (teachSBIRT) Curriculum Infusion Packet (CIP) is designed to provide resources for faculty in helping profession academic programs (e.g., Social Work, Counseling, Psychology and Behavioral Health) to present SBIRT to students.
The link between childhood trauma and substance use disorders is well-documented in the literature. This resource acknowledges that link and is intended to help healthcare providers deliver a brief intervention for substance use using a trauma-informed care approach. Whether you are well-versed in the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) process, or just looking for an effective way to address substance use concerns with your patients, this guide provides practical examples to facilitate that conversation. The left column provides scripts and concrete strategies to move through the brief intervention process, while the right column provides considerations to ensure trauma-informed care principles are integrated into the delivery.
This guide describes core elements of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) programs for people living with or at risk for substance use disorders. It provides information on implementing SBIRT services and covering challenges, barriers, cost, and sustainability.
“Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide” is designed to help health care professionals quickly identify youth at risk for alcohol-related problems. NIAAA developed the Guide and Pocket Guide in collaboration with a team of underage drinking researchers and clinical specialists and practicing health care professionals.
This brief virtual presentation will provide a guide through several Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training and technical assistance options that are available to medical professionals licensed to practice in the state of Nevada (including physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, licensed midwives and licensed clinical social workers) to learn about strategies to implement SBIRT within your healthcare or OBGYN setting.
(Revised April 2021) Substance misuse, dependency, and substance use disorders (SUDs), including opioid use disorder (OUD), are prevalent among Nevada adult populations, including among individuals of reproductive age. Subsequently, OUD also occurs during pregnancy at an alarming rate with far reaching effects on both the parent and infant. SUD is a primary chronic disease similar to diabetes and hypertension, not a moral failure or character weakness, and should be treated as such by the medical professionals who care for pregnant patients and their infants. Currently, pregnant patients with SUD who present to Labor & Delivery (L&D) units, may receive significant variation in services. These differences include identification and treatment of SUD, identification and treatment for the infant(s), reproductive planning, and care coordination. Practice variance without the use of common generally accepted expert guidelines may potentially lead to parental and/or neonatal complications before, during, and/or after delivery. This reference guide aims to address some of these variances and provide a resource with best practices, guidelines, and protocols for medical professionals involved in the care of pregnant patients with OUD who are admitted to L&D units for delivery and their infants up until discharge.
(Revised April 2021) Substance misuse, dependency, and substance use disorders (SUDs), including opioid use disorders (OUDs) are common among Nevada adult populations. These issues are also occurring during pregnancy at an alarming rate with far reaching effects on both mother and infant. To date, the single best strategy we have to identify and help those that want assistance is adding screening and referral to treatment, known as Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), into the clinical setting. Medical professionals are often the first line to aid in this effort. Note that this document uses the term “medical professional” to be inclusive of doctors and advanced practitioners. The intention for this guide is to provide basic directives for successfully implementing Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), into the clinical setting. SBIRT, specifically how to apply it to pregnant and non-pregnant persons of reproductive age populations.
To help with patient substance misuse and dependency screening and referral, two Perinatal Health Reference Guides have been developed and are available for Medical professionals to aid in this effort. To raise awareness of these resources and the use of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), we have launched the Media Toolkit: #PerinatalHealthSBIRT
The Division of Health Care Financing and Policy has taken action to address the opioid crisis by updating Nevada Medicaid policy and opening Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)-related evaluation and management (E/M) codes for billing by Nevada Medicaid providers effective with dates of service on or after January 1, 2020. In addition to MAT related E/M codes, Nevada Medicaid opened Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) codes to assist providers in performing screening services to recipients at risk or struggling with Substance Use Disorder (SUD).