Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Provides information on how to best address intake, billing, and coding procedures in community health centers, which are critical aspects in positive patient outcomes

Review that examined brief intervention implementation in general practice or emergency care settings and effects in reducing heavy drinking, finding that brief interventions can reduce alcohol consumption in hazardous and harmful drinkers compared to minimal or no intervention

Guides primary care organizations through adopting principles of primary care, using an adapted Find, Organize, Clarify, Understand, Select (FOCUS) Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) quality improvement framework

This is a change guide for primary care providers on how to offer integrated care for patients with alcohol use disorder or substance use disorder; it outlines nine changes, covering both clinical and organizational implementation.

Manual for behavioral health clinicians on how to provide substance use services in integrated primary care settings; also gives overview of considerations for effective integrated care