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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2015 Nov 10;46:30–38. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2015.11.009

Table 2.

Definition of SBIRT risk groups [41,42]

Risk group Definition
The minimal risk S group Non-users of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs.
The at-risk SBI group Current cigarette smokers, current alcohol users, or past-year drug users (having DAST-10 score 0–2 and all of the following: no daily use of any illicit and nonmedical drugs, no weekly use of illicit and nonmedical drugs, no injection drug use for nonmedical reasons in the past 3 months, not in SUD treatment)
The high-risk SBIRT group High-risk drinkers (AUDIT-C score ≥5) [45,46] or high-risk drug users (having DAST-10 scores ≥3, or having DAST-10 scores 0–2 and any of the following: daily use of any illicit or nonmedical drugs, weekly use of illicit or nonmedical drugs, injection drug use for nonmedical reasons in the past 3 months, currently in SUD treatment).