Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources

Guides practitioners and administrators in implementing and sustaining SBIRT within a practice; includes information on process improvement strategies, planning and tailoring strategies, and worksheets to guide implementation

Recommendations for successful primary care and behavioral health integration for improving delivery of care including use of screening tools and team-based care

A review of SBIRT fidelity tools and proficiency checklists, identifying heterogeneity among existing tools

Conference proceedings from the Technology, Mind, and Society 2021 symposium addressed various technology-enabled SBIRT to treatment approaches, focusing specifically on efforts at incorporating artificial intelligence (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing) in this work

Suggests that primary care patients with several specific medical conditions, such as hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, may be more likely to report higher levels of alcohol use

Demonstrates provider administering BNI and education about NIAAA's at-risk limits

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

Simulation training course to prepare primary care providers to screen patients for mental health and substance use, perform brief interventions using motivational interviewing techniques, and refer patients to treatment; approved for 1.50 CMEs

A 10-item brief alcohol screening tool developed by the WHO to identify people in the United States whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health, composed of items on consumption, dependence, and problems caused by alcohol

A patient questionnaire to screen for alcohol and substance use