Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Screening tool to assess adult primary care patients for tobacco, alcohol, prescription drug, and illicit substance use, available for self- and interviewer-administration

Describes three steps to help family physicians seamlessly implement screening and brief intervention into their practice

Introduces implementation science methods and describes how they can be used to evaluate implementation of integrated primary care services

A validation study for TAPS-1 for identifying UAU in primary care patients

Describes the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety model for creating and evaluating primary care teams, based on findings from qualitative data

Article that explains the current state of evidence for the effectiveness of SBI in primary care and describes how this evidence applies to routine care; also offers strategies to improve the acceptability of alcohol assessment

A review of SBIRT fidelity tools and proficiency checklists, identifying heterogeneity among existing tools

Describes the design of NIDA's Clinical Trials Network's validation study of the TAPS Tool

Discusses the development of the SBIRT Proficiency Checklist and the Clinical SBIRT Proficiency Checklist, which are intended to assess a provider's ability and competency in delivering SBIRT

Examines patient and provider experiences with SBIRT in an outpatient clinical setting, demonstrating support for implementing SBIRT in primary care settings