Substance Use Tools & Resources    

Aims to promote awareness for the evidence base and promise of motivational interventions and shows how clinicians can influence motivation by developing a therapeutic relationship with the client. Describes different motivational interventions that can be used at all stages of change.

Guides healthcare professionals through an initial assessment of patient pain. Includes diagrams of the human body to help patients locate the pain they experience, as well as questions to prompt the patient to describe the intensity, quality, causes, effects, and contributing factors of the pain.

Measures treatment outcomes across four domains: substance use, health risk behavior, physical and psychological health, and personal/social functioning.

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

Identifies individuals who have a high probability of having an SUD.

Identifies potential problems with opioid abuse in the management of chronic nonmalignant pain within general medical practice. Includes questions on alcohol, marijuana, and cigarette use.

Assesses quality of life across physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains.

Screens for drug and alcohol use with a commonly used 4-question tool.

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

Assesses the location and severity of pain and its impact on functioning.