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Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. A score ≥2 constitutes a positive screen for possible substance misuse.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. It is a screening? And so then it would be nice to have those other than the chaplains, be aware of the spiritual component and then just ask some basic screening questions. I guess FICA is not as cool as SKY.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.