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This webpage provides a library of mental health apps, including those related to substance use, and provides evaluations based on the American Psychiatric Association's App Evaluation Model.
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Evaluation of Mental Health Mobile Applications
This Technical Brief proposes a framework to assess mental health mobile applications, including those related to substance use, with the aim to facilitate selection of apps. The results of applying the framework will yield summary statements on the strengths and limitations of the apps and are intended for use by providers and patients/caregivers.
Advisory: Cannabidiol (CBD) – Potential Harms, Side Effects, and Unknowns
This advisory introduces readers to cannabidiol (CBD), how it is derived, and how it differs from delta-9 THC and other cannabinoids. It also focuses on the risks and harms of CBD and clarifies common misconceptions about CBD.
Fostering Resilience and Recovery: A Change Package
This Change Package provides information, action steps and tools to guide implementation of a trauma-informed primary care approach.
What is a DTx?
This page provides an overview on Digital therapeutics, which deliver patients evidence-based therapeutic interventions that are driven by high quality software programs to treat, manage, or prevent a disease or disorder.
Ensuring appropriate quality, access, and utilization of digital therapeutics
This worksheet provides recommendations for patients, clinicians, and payors, on how to ensure digital therapeutic quality, access, and utilization when considering mental health apps, including those for substance use.
Environmental Scan Final Report - Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care
This report is a culmination of an e-scan conducted annually from August 2019 to August 2023 for AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Managing Unhealthy Alcohol Use Initiative, to address Unhealthy Alcohol Use (UAU). The initiative funded six sites (grantees) that supported several hundred primary care practices to increase implementation of UAU evidence-based interventions such as screening and brief intervention (SBI) and medication-assisted therapy (MAT).
Women and Alcohol: Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment
Discusses how screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment can be conducted by nurse practitioners in primary care; offers 1 CE credit
The Need for Electronic Health Records to Support Delivery of Behavioral Health Preventive Services
Describes the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative to improve primary care management of unhealthy alcohol use (UAU), and highlights needed changes in electronic health record systems to improve screening and counseling for UAU as well as meet the National Academies' digital health recommendation for information technology that best serves patients and care teams
Virtual Course: AUDIT-SBI in Primary Health Care
Virtual course that trains health professionals in implementing the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) and corresponding screening and brief interventions (SBI) in primary care