New Study: A Medical Office Intervention for Adolescent Drug Use (funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Primary care providers can use the CRAFFT tool to identify teens that are at high risk for problems with drug or alcohol use. Following additional assessment, some teens will need therapeutic interventions.
In this study we are testing a "brief intervention" for adolescents who have potentially serious levels of drug and alcohol use. Brief motivational interventions have been shown effective in reducing alcohol use among adults, but have not been studied extensively in adolescents. Adolescent participants in this study will first receive an evaluation through the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP), and then be randomly placed into one of two groups. The first group will receive "Enhanced Standard Care" through ASAP. The second group will meet with an ASAP provider for three "Motivational Interviewing" sessions over 4-6 weeks. All participants will complete questionnaires at study entry, and then again 6 months and 9 months later. We will compare the effectiveness of the two treatment approaches (ESC vs. MI) on rates of substance use and participation in other treatments.
Motivational interviewing is a patient-oriented, directive counseling style developed by Miller and Rollnick that has been proven effective in assisting adults with behavioral change. (Miller and Rollnick, Motivational Interviewing: Preparing people for change, 2002).
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