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SIPS brief interventions findings conference: 5th March 2012, King’s College London

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Results from the UK's largest brief intervention study, the SIPS trial , will be officialy released at a conference on Monday 5th March 2012, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Download the flyer for Alcohol Screening and Brief Interventions: From Research into Practice [pdf]. The event is a one day conference including the launch of SIPS Junior, a new trial into brief interventions for adolescents.

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New Screening System For Hepatitis C

Friday, February 12, 2010

A newly designed system of identifying molecules for treating hepatitis C should enable scientists to discover novel and effective therapies for the dangerous and difficult-to-cure disease of the liver, says Zhilei Chen, a Texas A&M University assistant professor of chemical engineering who helped develop the screening system…

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Screening current and future diagnosis of psychiatric disorders using the Revised Drug Use Screening Inventory.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Authors: Kirisci L, Tarter R, Mezzich A, Reynolds M The revised Drug Use Screening Inventory (DUSI-R) is a valid and reliable self-report questionnaire used for quantifying problems that frequently precede and co-occur with substance abuse. The present investigation determined whether the DUSI-R’s items can be aggregated into scales that implicate current and future psychiatric disorders

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Mental health among suburban drug court participants.

Monday, January 1, 2007

Authors: Weitzel JA, Nochajski TH, Coffey SF, Farrell MG The issue of co-occurring disorders is of concern to the Criminal Justice field, including drug courts. To assess the potential co-occurrence of substance use- and mental health-related diagnoses, the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire and similar instruments was administered to suburban drug court clients. Based on the screening, one quarter to one half of the 108 participants would be referred for follow-up for a mental health issue; women would be referred at a greater rate than men.

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