Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Provides an overview of SBIRT and walks clinicians through implementing SBIRT for unhealthy alcohol and other drug use in their practices

Committee opinion and guidelines for providers about at-risk drinking and alcohol dependence in women and the potential impact on health, including reproductive and pregnancy outcomes

Describes how to develop a practice facilitation program within primary care settings

Discusses the evidence for using SBIRT for different behavioral health conditions, including unhealthy alcohol use, illict drugs, tobacco, depression, and anxiety disorders

Literature review of implementation studies of alcohol SBI using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) model to identify domains addressed by programs that achieved high rates of screening and/or brief intervention

The purpose of this manual is to introduce the ASSIST and to describe how to use it in health care settings – particularly community based primary health care settings – to identify people who are using substances, so that a brief intervention (or referral) can be provided, as appropriate.

Systematic review of UAU screening tools for pregnant women, including T-ACE, TWEAK, CAGE, NET, and the AUDIT-C

Studied the use of the AUDIT and AUDIT-C in family medicine clinics to predict alcohol dependence

Adaptation of the original 2004 guide that encourages the use of medical management when treating alcohol use disorders in clinical pharmacotherapy research and clinical settings

Guides physicians in the use of medications to help patients abstain from alcohol use; describes how medications work, whom they benefit, and side effects for 3 FDA-approved medications: acamprosate, disulfiram, and naltrexone