[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 13, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47243-47244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-18672]


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OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY


Leadership Conference on Medical Education in Substance Abuse

AGENCY: Office of National Drug Control Policy.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: A White House Leadership Summit on Screening and Brief 
Intervention for Substance Abuse, bringing together leaders in the 
field of medical education and healthcare policy will be held on 
Friday, September 5th, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington DC, starting at 9 a.m. and 
concluding at 3 p.m. The overall objectives of the White House Summit 
are to recognize the advances achieved and the remaining challenges by 
the field in the widespread use of screening and brief intervention 
procedures designed to identify and promote behavioral change in 
populations engaged in risky, problematic substance use, or that have

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a diagnosis of abuse/addiction. Abuse of illicit drugs, alcohol, or 
prescription drugs adversely affects the health of millions of 
Americans. Wide-spread implementation of screening and brief 
intervention procedures is a public-health approach that can have a 
major, positive impact on public health.
    The specific conference objectives are: (1) To share with health 
care professionals the positive benefits of screening and brief 
interventions; (2) To alert them to recent, rapid advances in the field 
on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) 
procedures for substance abuse in various healthcare settings; (3) to 
promote adoption and use of new reimbursable healthcare procedural 
codes (screening and brief intervention) and examine cost-effectiveness 
of implementing the codes; (4) To address best practices for performing 
these procedures in various healthcare settings; (5) To identify 
challenges to and enlist their support to devise strategies to 
implement and sustain system-wide change for implementing these 
preventive medicine procedures (6) To disseminate and expand on the 
cost-effectiveness and analysis of these procedures (7) To inform 
educators of new teaching materials for widespread dissemination of 
these practices. Members of the public who wish to attend the meeting 
should telephone ONDCP's Leadership Conference on Medical Education 
telephone line at (202) 395-6750 to arrange building access.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: June Sivilli at (202) 395-5526.

    Dated: August 5, 2008.
Linda V. Priebe,
Assistant General Counsel.
[FR Doc. E8-18672 Filed 8-12-08; 8:45 am]
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