Briefly: Medical school initiative will teach how to identify substance abusers

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The Yale School of Medicine will become one of 11 schools across the country to introduce Screening, Brief, Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT) training — which will teach physicians-in-training how to identify and help individuals with substance-abuse problems — into its medical residency program. The program is being supported by a $1.8 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.