Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Explains topics related to billing Medicare and Medicaid for telehealth services, such as billing codes, policies, and application during COVID-19

Provides assistance, education, and information to organizations and individuals who are actively providing or interested in providing healthcare at a distance through events, resources, webinars, techncial assistance, and an interactive map used to find the affiliated regional telehealth resource center

Examines trends in deaths related to substance use, including alcohol use across the United States. Also discusses research looking at causes of deaths and potential policy and program solutions aimed at addressing these issues, including the Well Being Trust's Healing the Nation Policy Framework

Identifies four steps that will help to ensure that a broader transition to telehealth will be successful in improving the health outcomes of patients with substance use disorders

Reviews literature on the role of practice facilitators in settings aiming to deliver integrated behavioral health and primary care,

Describes the methodology of a study that aims to test a 6-month practice facilitation for managing unhealthy alcohol use in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics

Describes randomized controlled trial that uses practice facilitation for implementing screening, counseling, and treatment for unhealthy alcohol use, proposing that practice facilitation can make changes related to managing unhealthy alcohol use within a practice

Offers interactive modules for practice facilitators with comprehensive and practical information about unhealthy alcohol use that can be applied to primary care practices

One of SAMHSA's series of advisories based on TIP 49, which provides an overview of medications for treatment of alcohol use disorder

Evaluates a new AAPPQ that uses person-centered language and addresses the spectrum of alcohol use, concluding that the 30-item instrument is a promising tool for assessing providers' attitudes toward unhealthy alcohol use without promoting negative biases