Substance Use - Adolescent Addiction Specialist

$45–95/hr

rate as listed

Workload: ~15h/week
Engagement: Project-based
Location: Worldwide
Field: Medical

micro1 is contracting licensed adolescent addiction clinicians to review substance use case material and document assessments of risk, severity, and level of care using DSM-5 SUD and ASAM criteria. The written output trains AI systems, so reasoning has to be explicit, referenced, and usable by non-specialists.

What the work involves

You receive clinical case material describing adolescent substance use and write a structured assessment: what the pattern suggests, how severe it is, how urgently someone needs to act, and what level of care fits. You will stage severity against DSM-5 SUD criteria and map placement against ASAM dimensions, then judge whether a proposed intervention (sometimes a model-generated one) is safe and clinically appropriate, including pharmacological options such as MOUD and withdrawal management in under-18s. A recurring task is drawing the line between developmentally expected experimentation and a clinically significant pattern, and saying plainly why you drew it there. Cases that carry withdrawal, overdose, or safeguarding risk need to be flagged for escalation rather than quietly scored.

What the platform screens for

micro1 runs an AI-led interview before any task work. Expect it to test whether your adolescent caseload is recent and real: tool fluency (CRAFFT, S2BI, DSM-5, ASAM), what you actually do when a 16-year-old screens positive for daily cannabis plus intermittent opioid use, how you handle confidentiality against parental notification, and where the evidence base for adolescent MOUD is thin. Follow-up questions go a layer deeper than the first answer, so cite thresholds, criteria counts, and guideline sources rather than describing your general approach. Written English at research standard matters here, because the deliverable is prose that a non-specialist has to act on.

Logistics

Remote, contractor, asynchronous task work with no fixed shifts
Pay band: $45–95/hr, as observed for this listing, not guaranteed
Roles typically fill within 48 hours; first tasks expected within 24 to 48 hours of onboarding
Your assessments are benchmarked against peer input and published best practice, so consistency across cases is tracked

No AI background is required. The value you bring is the clinical judgment, and the discipline to write it down in a form that can be audited.

What they look for

Clinical reasoning
Child/Adolescent Clinical Safety expertise
Clinical risk assessment
Severity staging
Intervention judgment

Included with this listing

Interview prep — 10 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether your adolescent experience is recent and direct rather than adult-SUD work or supervisory distance from youth cases.
A strong answer: A concrete setting (youth outpatient clinic, adolescent inpatient detox, school-based program), the rough volume and age span, the substances you saw most, and dates that place the work inside the last two years.
Where people lose it: Describing a predominantly adult addiction practice with occasional young adults and calling it adolescent experience; the screener usually follows up by asking the youngest patient you treated and what the referral pathway was.

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