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Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) consists of three major components:
- Screening – health care professional assesses a patient for risky substance use behaviors using standardize screening tools. Screening can occur in any healthcare setting.
- Brief Intervention – healthcare professional engages a patient showing risky substance use behaviors in a short conversation, providing feedback and advice.
- Referral to treatment – healthcare professional provides a referral to brief therapy or additional treatment to patients who screen in need of additional services.