Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Provides information about coding for payment and reimbursement of behavioral health integration (BHI) services, including general BHI and collaborative care management

Provides information on the EPSDT benefit for children under age 21 enrolled in Medicaid, including guidelines and strategy guides for State programs

Describes Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) activities, which provide common standards and shared technologies to monitor and analyze the quality of health care provided to patients and patient outcomes. This resource center offers educational resources, tools, and standards for using eCQI

Describes the intervention from the Sustained Patient-Centered Alcohol-Related Care (SPARC) trial and the increases in screening and brief intervention as a result of the trial. It does not include alcohol use disorder treatment engagement in primary care

Provides information and answers to common questions primary care clinicians may have about medications prescribed for the treatment of alcohol use disorder

Provides research and support for the use of alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), by providers across the health care spectrum to prevent or reduce alcohol misuse among their patients

Discusses how screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment can be conducted by nurse practitioners in primary care; offers 1 CE credit

Review of articles looking at the use of technology for addressing drug and alcohol use and smoking in women, highlighting studies showing that these telecommunication technology interventions were successful at reducing alcohol and substance misuse

Discusses a curriculum developed to teach internal medicine residents about the proper management of alcohol use disorder (AUD), finding that its implementation improved knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in AUD treatment. The curriculum is available for download