Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Guides primary care practices in adapting alcohol SBI to their practice; involves steps required to plan, implement, and improve this process

Presentation for healthcare providers about the basics of implementing SBIRT

Describes a model of primary care called the 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care, which describe existing high-performing practices and serve as a model for improvement

Systematic review of 24 review articles that concludes that literature supports brief intervention in primary care settings to address unhealthy alcohol use

Guide to selecting a treatment option

Describes development of a comprehensive checklist of determinants of practice, or factors that enable or prevent practice improvements; also includes worksheets to facilitate use of the checklist in quality improvement projects

Summarizes a randomized clinical trial of the HERA web-based program for facilitating SBIRT for alcohol and other drug use

Compared the AUDIT-C and AUDIT in HIV infected and uninfected men, finding both tools performed similarly in both populations for identifying risky drinking, alcohol dependence, and UAU

Checklist used after a high AUDIT-C score to engage a patient in dialogue on alcohol and other drug-related symptoms; provides guidance on assessing the severity of an alcohol and/or other drug use disorder

Discusses a primary care intervention in which patients with hypertension and/or diabetes received alcohol SBI and medications for alcohol use disorders