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.
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.
Assesses the presence of withdrawal symptoms from opioids using a 9-point scale to describe how the patient has been feeling in the past 24 hours.
Measures 11 signs and symptoms commonly seen in patients during narcotic withdrawal. This scale can help gauge the severity of the symptoms and monitor changes in clinical status over time.
Contains 13 physically observable signs, rated present or absent, based on a rater’s timed observation of the patient.
Assess patient withdrawal symptoms.
Offers a 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one's life satisfaction (not a measure of either positive or negative affect). Prompts participants to indicate how much they agree or disagree with each of the 5 items using a 7-point scale that ranges from 7 (strongly agree) to 1 (strongly disagree).
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.
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