Alcohol

Screening Incarcerated Women for Opioid Use Disorder

“…Participants completed the NIDA-modified version of the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (NM-ASSIST; Pagliaro & Pagliaro, 2012) and the DSM OUD Checklist (APA, 2013) to assess for presence of OUD symptoms and the range of symptom severity. For the NM-ASSIST, the timeframe for data collection is typically focused on the past 3 months, but was modified for this study to the 3 months before incarceration.…”

“…Evidence-based screening approaches have been successful in other settings (such as health care settings and pharmacies) to identify individuals at high risk for OUD, which may have application within criminal justice settings. For example, the Alcohol Smoking Substance Involved Screening Test (ASSIST) was developed and validated by the World Health Organization ([WHO]; Humeniuk & Ali, 2006; WHO ASSIST Working Group, 2002) to detect substance use risk in health care settings, and further modified by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to separate specific categories of prescription/street opioids and stimulant use (NIDA modified-ASSIST [NM-ASSIST]; Pagliaro & Pagliaro, 2012). The NM-ASSIST takes 5–10 min to administer, yields a substance use severity score which can be indicative of intervention need (4+), and has been validated as an effective screening tool for substance use in criminal justice settings (Holmwood, Marriott, & Humeniuk, 2008; Staton et al, 2018; Wolff & Shi, 2015).…”