Clinical Preventive Services in Substance Abuse and Mental Health Update: from Science to Services

July 8, 2004 This article was written by Joel L. Nitzkin, MD, MPH, and Shelagh A. Smith, MPH, CHES, and published in July 2004. This report has been prepared to summarize the most promising preventive interventions of a behavioral nature intended to impact mental and substance use disorders, or in some cases, medical outcomes. This review focuses on prevention interventions that are primarily delivered by health care systems.This report fills in the previously founded gaps in preceding articles by including all studies, regardless of outcome, and describes the optimal circumstances for implementing services and tracking costs. The descriptions may . . .