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Substance Use Tools & Resources   

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This collection of tools and resources is for providers, staff, and patients who offer or use services to address substance use, and other interested stakeholders. This collection was originally established following an environmental scan on implementing medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in rural primary care. (See PDFs of Volume 1 (PDF - 609 KB) and Volume 2 (PDF - 1.3 MB) of that scan). Items have been continuously added to this collection since then, and the collection has expanded to cover substance use more broadly, rather than just MAT for OUD.

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Patient Pain and Medication Tracking Chart

Helps patients keep track of their function, pain, sleep, and alcohol/drug use. Allows providers to then use the chart to properly adjust the patient's medications to obtain optimal benefit and to minimize risk to health and safety.

Format
Patient Form
Audience
Patients
Medical Providers
Source
Utah Department of Health
Year

How Buprenorphine Works (PDF - 365 KB KB)

Uses graphics and a description of the pharmacology to explain buprenorphine in lay terms.

Format
Fact Sheet/Brochure
Audience
Patients
Families
Source
National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment
Year
Resource Type
PDF

Keele STarT Back Screening Tool (PDF - 81.7 KB KB)

Uses a simple prognostic questionnaire to help clinicians identify modifiable risk factors (biomedical, psychological, and social) for back pain disability. Stratifies patients with the resulting score as low, medium, or high risk and matches patients with a treatment package for each category.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
Keele University
Year
Resource Type
PDF

Addiction Behaviors Checklist (ABC) (PDF - 21.4 MB KB)

Uses a 20-item instrument administered in an interview format to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations. The instrument is scored based on participant responses, interviewer observations of displayed behaviors, and information gathered from medical chart review.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
Naliboff BD, with support from VA Health Services Research and Development
Year
Resource Type
PDF