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Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialist
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About the Role
micro1 is engaging Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialists to assess adolescent substance use cases and provide clinical guidance on risk, severity, and recommended responses for a customer project. In this role, you'll apply your expertise to help train next-generation AI systems. Your work will shape how models learn, reason, and perform through high-quality, real-world input. No prior experience in AI is required — your domain knowledge is what matters.
What You'll Do
- Review clinical case material describing adolescent substance use and document thorough assessments of risk, severity, and intervention urgency.
- Apply established frameworks such as DSM-5 SUD and ASAM to stage severity and recommend an appropriate level of care.
- Evaluate the safety and clinical appropriateness of both proposed and alternative interventions, including pharmacological options when relevant.
- Distinguish between developmentally normal experimentation and clinically significant patterns of substance use in youth.
- Identify and flag withdrawal, overdose, and safeguarding risks that require escalation or immediate action.
- Develop written guidance that is actionable for non-specialists, clearly explaining the rationale and referencing relevant standards or guidelines.
- Compare and benchmark your assessments against peer input and published best practice to ensure consistency and rigor.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Clinical reasoning, Child/Adolescent Clinical Safety expertise, Clinical risk assessment, Severity staging, Intervention judgment
- 3–5+ years of post-certification experience working directly with adolescents impacted by substance use.
- Clinical specialty in addiction medicine, or child/adolescent psychiatry or psychology with a primary focus on substance use disorders.
- Active clinical license/registration in good standing, with recent (<2 years) adolescent caseload experience.
- Proficiency with adolescent substance use screening and severity staging tools (e.g., CRAFFT, S2BI, DSM-5, ASAM criteria).
- Familiarity with medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD/MAT) and withdrawal management protocols for under-18s.
- Research-standard written English (native, or IELTS 7.5+ overall/writing 7.0+, TOEFL 100+, Cambridge C1–C2, or equivalent).
- Motivational interviewing training, adolescent inpatient/crisis experience, and/or history of developing guidelines or publications in youth SUD (nice to have).
- Start Timeline & Availability
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