Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Offers best practices and tools for primary care organizations to incorporate substance use disorder into their treatment services

Explores the availability of substance use disorder treatment data in the electronic health record to inform research

Outlines examples of clinical workflows and tasks that can help practices integrate behavioral health into primary care

Evaluates patient satisfaction, acceptability, and components of implementation of in-person SBIRT compared with electronic-SBIRT in health care settings

Outlines in 2 sections how to develop and sustain an SBIRT Data Collection System and integrate it into an organization's electronic health record

Describes the feasibility and acceptability of myTAPS among primary care patients

Includes tools for practice facilitators on topics such as ways to engage practices, quality improvement work, and administrative tools

A trial of 3 SBIRT care modalities that demonstrated that adolescents who received SBIRT by either a primary care pediatrician or behavioral clinician were less likely to have substance use disorder diagnoses at 1 and 3 years

Study of health care utilization after implementation of SBIRT in primary care, which finds that the costs of implementing SBIRT would be offset by reduction in health care utilization

An overview of alcohol-induced blackouts, including the different types, causes, and associated consequences