Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Assesses the intensity of pain and the level of interference in normal daily life using a three-item scale.

Provides recommendations on how to properly use and prescribe opioid medication for both acute and chronic pain.

Provides a summary of recommendations on how to assess and manage chronic pain. Includes detailed tools, such as an assessment algorithm, management algorithm, personal care plan for chronic pain, and the DIRE Score, which predicts patient suitability for long-term opioid analgesic treatment.

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

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.

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

Describes development and validation of a low-literacy, English-language opioid contract.

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.

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.

Assesses differences in attractiveness of different prescription opioid products and formulations to potential individuals with substance use disorders.