February, 2006

InSight was featured in the second chapter of the 2006 National Drug Control Strategy. Key initiatives in this report include Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment (SBIRT), the President's Access to Recovery program, which expands treatment options, and drug courts, which seek to rehabilitate offenders with substance abuse problems.

Healing America's Drug Users is one of three key national priorities, and the following is excerpted from this chapter, "Critical to the success of InSight is the participation of physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, social workers, and all generalist health care professionals. The Harris County Hospital District is one of the Nation's largest publicly funded health care systems, and successful integration of the SBIRT program has the potential to significantly increase public awareness about the harmful effects of drugs. It also can provide interventions that decrease initiation of use by adolescents and increase the number of Americans who stop using drugs."

For full report, visit

www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/policy/ndcs06/healing_amer.html