A single drug-use screening question about past-year illegal drug use or nonmedical prescription medication use was found to be 100% sensitive and 73.5% specific for detecting a drug use disorder in a primary-care setting.
Notes on verification
Confirmed directly by the peer-reviewed original study (Arch Intern Med 2010) accessible via PMC, with matching figures corroborated by independent institutional press releases and secondary summaries. No contradicting sources found. [tier=gold indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids ... (seed:health_and_medicine)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2911954 (corroboration)
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/225770 (corroboration)
- https://www.bu.edu/aodhealth/2010/07/01/can-a-single-question-detect-drug-use-and-drug-use-disorders (corroboration)
- https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2010/07/13/researchers-validate-single-question-screening-test-for-drug-use-in-primary-care (corroboration)