Does screening and brief intervention for drug use in primary care increase receipt of substance use disorder treatment?

Despite the well-established risks of persistent smoking, 10–30% of cancer patients continue to smoke after diagnosis. Evidence-based tobacco treatment has yet to be integrated into routine oncology care. This paper describes the protocol, manualized treatment, evaluation plan, and overall study design of comparing the effectiveness and cost of two treatments across two major cancer centers.A two-arm, two-site randomized controlled comparative...