Library Grand Rounds

Addictions Resources for Care Providers
September 19, 2002

Clinicians and other care providers frequently confront addiction issues. You need information about screening for and diagnosing substance/alcohol abuse in your general practice. Your addicted patients require intervention and treatment programs. You need to quickly and efficiently locate reputable sources of information.

September's Library Grand Rounds addressed the many sources of addiction information. Joseph O'Donnell, MD, Professor of Medicine, Senior Advising Dean, and Director of Community Programs, DMS, summarized the issues. Biomedical Librarians identified and review Web-based tools and resources for:

• screening and diagnosis
• prevention at both the individual and community levels
• intervention strategies and programs
• information about individual substances, and
• patient/consumer education sites.

Library Grand Rounds are a forum for presenting information resources and tools of interest to Dartmouth clinicians. Please contact Karen Odato, the Libraries' Education Coordinator, if you have questions, comments or suggestions for future Library Grand Rounds.

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this educational activity for up to one hour in Category I credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spent in the educational activity. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.