About this role
Role Overview
Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialist contract role, remote, with pay of $45 - $95/hour. Assess adolescent substance use cases and provide clinical guidance on risk, severity, and recommended responses for a customer project. No prior experience in AI is required; domain knowledge is what matters.
Required Skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Child/adolescent clinical safety expertise
- Clinical risk assessment
- Severity staging
- Intervention judgment
Scope of Work
- 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 assessments against peer input and published best practice to ensure consistency and rigor.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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, including CRAFFT, S2BI, DSM-5, and 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 are nice to have.
Start Timeline & Availability
- Roles are typically filled within 48 hours.
- Experts should be ready to jump in right away.
- If selected, candidates are expected to start their first tasks within 24-48 hours of completing onboarding.