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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.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

” Emmy: I think it’s important to recognize that many primary care providers don’t have the time to be doing really comprehensive kinds of assessments. Emmy: I remember one where a gentleman who’d had a stroke and couldn’t use his right arm anymore … maybe his right leg as well. Emmy: Yeah.

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