We are thrilled to welcome you to the INEBRIA 2025 San Francisco Conference, the 21st annual INEBRIA conference.  The theme of this year’s conference is “Screening and brief intervention: Expanding the evidence base on innovative approaches, clinical outcomes, implementation and sustainment.”

The 2025 theme highlights the unique focus of this conference on practice-based research that informs policy and has the potential to impact not only alcohol and other drug use, and other risk behaviors, but overall health and wellbeing at the population level.

Our 2025 program will reflect the following innovative areas of screening and brief intervention (SBI) research:

• The full scope of SBI research. INEBRIA is the only organization in the world whose specific focus is SBI. The 2025 conference will include the breadth and depth of SBI research, extending the traditional model to incorporate innovative approaches to outreach and delivery of interventions outside of health care settings to reach new populations. It will include a strong focus on SBI research and implementation in low- and middle-income countries as well as low-resource settings in high-income countries.
• Implementation science. Implementation science principles can illuminate why some SBI initiatives have not achieved their goals and can guide future interventions toward feasible and sustainable approaches.
• SBI in the context of medical and psychiatric comorbidities. Interventions for substance use need to be a part of broader behavioral programs to support their implementation and meet the needs of patients. Researchers can benefit from learning about addressing the complexity of behavioral health problems, including comorbid mental health and substance use conditions and concurrent use of drugs and alcohol.
• Electronic SBI, beyond internet interventions. New applications of technology have the potential to radically transform both the content and the reach of SBI. The meeting will highlight these innovative approaches.
• Adolescent SBI. The conference will provide an opportunity to summarize this fast-moving area of research, to evaluate and discuss what works, to identify gaps in the evidence base, and to chart the next phase of research.
• Effect Heterogeneity. Studies focusing on the efficacy and effectiveness of SBI across population groups: how they work and for whom.

The meeting will be co-hosted by the Center for Addiction and Mental Health Research (CAMHR) at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.