Substance Use Tools & Resources    

The purpose of this manual is to introduce the ASSIST and to describe how to use it in health care settings – particularly community based primary health care settings – to identify people who are using substances, so that a brief intervention (or referral) can be provided, as appropriate.

Provides lessons learned from organizations with established MAT programs, including making the business case for MAT, securing buy-in from staff, overcoming community resistance, paying for MAT, finding prescribers, obtaining licenses and credentials, screening and assessing patients, combining medication and therapy, and sustaining a MAT program.

A Practice Guideline which includes treatment recommendations for patients with substance use disorders, as well as background information and a review of available evidence.

This screening device is often used as a way to begin discussion about drug and alcohol use. Any woman who answers yes to one or more questions should be referred for further assessment.

Explains how to use the CRAFFT tool, which consists of a series of 6 questions developed to screen adolescents age 14 and over for high-risk alcohol and other drug use disorders. Provides the resources needed to efficiently incorporate this tool, brief interventions, and referrals to treatment into routine adolescent visits.

Predicts aberrant medication-related behaviors among persons with chronic pain and complements current risk assessment practices to improve a clinician's ability to assess a patient's risk for opioid misuse.

Uses a 17-item self-assessment to identify patients with chronic pain taking opioids who have indicators of current aberrant drug-related behaviors.

Helps clinicians better identify the presence of opioid abuse or dependence in patients with chronic pain.

Helps clinicians identify whether a long-term chronic pain patient is exhibiting aberrant behaviors associated with opioid medication misuse.

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.