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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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CAGE-AID

Screens for drug and alcohol use with a commonly used 4-question tool.
Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Source
Brown R.
Year

Severity of Dependence Scale (PDF - .04 MB)

Provides a score indicating the severity of dependence on opioids using a 5-item questionnaire.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Source
Gossop M, et al.
Year

Opiate Treatment Index Manual (PDF - 757 KB)

Evaluates opioid treatment using a set of measures among six domains: drug use, HIV risk-taking behavior, social functioning, criminality, health status, and psychological adjustment.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Source
Darke S, et al. (National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia)
Year
Resource Type
PDF

Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) (PDF - 279 KB)

Provides a brief self-report instrument for population screening, clinical case finding, and treatment evaluation research to yield a quantitative index of the degree of consequences related to drug abuse.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Medical Providers
Source
Skinner HA. (Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto)
Year

Addiction Severity Index

Uses a semistructured interview to address seven potential problem areas in substance-abusing patients: medical status, employment and support, drug use, alcohol use, legal status, family/social status, and psychiatric status.
Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Medical Providers
Behavioral Health Providers
Source
McLellan A., et al.
Year

Rural Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorder Toolkit

Provides evidence-based examples, promising models, program best practices, and resources organizations can use to implement substance use disorder prevention and treatment programs

Format
Toolkit
Audience
Communities
Medical Providers
Organizational Leadership
Other Team Members
States
Source
NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis; Rural Health Information Hub
Resource Type
Web Page

TAPS

The Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medication, and other Substance use (TAPS) Tool consists of a combined screening component (TAPS-1) followed by a brief assessment (TAPS-2) for those who screen positive.

Format
Instrument/Protocol
Audience
Behavioral Health Providers
Medical Providers
Other Team Members
Source
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Resource Type
Web Page