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Rhode Island Community Profiles

The Providence Plan This site is designed to provide Rhode Islanders with easy access to data about their communities and assist them in making sense of this information. It hopes to empower the government, businesses, nonprofits, institutes of higher education, and...

What is SBIRT and Why Use It

Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Joe Hyde's presentation slides: introduce Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) as a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of clinically-preventative, early...

Overview of Dual Diagnosis Treatment

Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Dr. John Rodolico's presentation slides: provide an introduction and foundation to motivational interviewing. Dr. Rodolico also presents the importance of client buy-in and desire to change.

Identifying and Treating Co-Occurring Disorders

Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Pamela Messore's presentation slides: familiarize clinicians with identification and treatment of co-occurring disorders. Particular attention is given to Avis 1 diagnoses, teenage substance abuse, and both...

Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution in Rhode Island

Michael A. Yokell, ScB, Traci C. Green, MSc, PhD, Sarah Bowman, MPH, Michelle McKenzie, MPH, and Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH, 2011 This public access manuscript published in 2011 presents an overview and evaluation of a pilot overdose prevention program in Rhode Island....

Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse

Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Dr. Michael Fiori's presentation slides: provide an overview of the similarities and differences in adolescent and adult substance abuse and the implications for treatment.  Risk factors for substance abuse and...