Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialist

Responsibilities

• Review clinical case material involving adolescent substance use and document thorough assessments of risk, severity, and intervention urgency.
• Apply established frameworks such as DSM-5 substance use disorder criteria and ASAM criteria to stage severity and recommend appropriate levels of care.
• Evaluate the safety and clinical appropriateness of proposed and alternative interventions, including pharmacological options when relevant.
• Distinguish developmentally normal experimentation from clinically significant patterns of substance use among adolescents.
• Identify and flag withdrawal, overdose, safeguarding, and other clinical risks requiring escalation or immediate action.
• Develop actionable written clinical guidance for non-specialists, clearly explaining the rationale and referencing relevant standards or guidelines.
• Compare and benchmark clinical assessments against peer input and published best practices to maintain consistency and rigor.

Skills

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of post-certification experience working directly with adolescents affected by substance use.
• Clinical specialty in addiction medicine or child and adolescent psychiatry or psychology with a primary focus on substance use disorders.
• Active clinical license or professional registration in good standing.
• Recent adolescent caseload experience within the past 2 years.
• Proficiency with adolescent substance use screening and severity staging tools such as CRAFFT, S2BI, DSM-5, and ASAM criteria.
• Strong clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills relating to adolescent substance use.
• Ability to identify withdrawal, overdose, safeguarding, and other risks requiring escalation.
• Familiarity with medication for opioid use disorder and withdrawal management protocols for patients under 18.
• Research-standard written English proficiency.
• Motivational interviewing training is preferred.
• Adolescent inpatient or crisis experience is advantageous.
• Experience developing clinical guidelines or publications related to youth substance use disorders is preferred.

Benefits

• Fully remote contractor opportunity.
• $45–$95 hourly compensation.
• Opportunity to apply specialized adolescent addiction expertise to next-generation AI systems.
• Work involving clinically meaningful assessment of substance use risk, severity, safety, and intervention strategies.
• Opportunity to apply established clinical frameworks including DSM-5 and ASAM criteria.
• Remote collaboration with clinical experts and project contributors.