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Provides guidance on medication-assisted treatment for unhealthy alcohol use, specifically on benzodiazepines, during the COVID-19 pandemic

One of SAMHSA's series of advisories based on Treatment Improvement Protocol 27, Comprehensive which summarizes updated guidance and recommendations for case management for patients with substance use disorder

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

Summarizes discussions from a 2020 workshop exploring challenges and opportunities for providing care for people with mental health and substance use disorders in primary care settings

Presents challenges and opportunities for improving behavioral health (including alcohol use disorder) in rural communities, with examples of ways to better integrate behavioral health and primary care and examples of policies for addressing behavioral health disorders

Provides information about unhealthy alcohol use, and includes the AUDIT-C screening tool, tips for cutting down on alcohol use, and additional resources

Information about alcohol use disorder (AUD), medications used to treat AUD, and how AUD can be identified and treated in primary care

Provides information about the development and potential uses of the USAUDIT alcohol screening clinical decision support that can be integrated into electronic health record systems and other health information technology to help providers identify adults who should be screened for alcohol use

Encourages medical assistants to take an active role and serve as champions for screening, brief intervention for alcohol use in primary care settings

Describes facts about alcohol use related to COVID-19, with the aim to dispel common myths about alcohol use during the pandemic