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Screening and Interventions for Social Risk Factors: A Technical Brief to Support the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

This technical brief highlights research on screening and interventions for social risk factors, including screening for substance use, and presents gaps in the research as well as challenges of implementing these interventions.

Routine Assessment of Symptoms of Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care: Prevalence and Severity of Reported Symptoms

Explores the use of routine screening for symptoms of substance use disorder (SUD), including alcohol use disorder (AUD), in primary care practices and found that the use of symptom checklists could help primary care providers identify and treat patients with SUD

Resources for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

This web page provides updated resources, including guides and tools from SAMHSA, for practitioners related to screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT).

SBIRT Training Preview (eSBIRT)

Produced by Screening and Brief Intervention in Missouri (formally mosbirt.org), this website provides resources to support primary care providers in becoming skilled at identifying and addressing risky alcohol and drug use

SBIRT-Plus: Adding Population Health Innovations to Enhance Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Effectiveness

Describes the benefits of screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT)-Plus, which is focused on increasing the reach of SBIRT by aiming for systems-level changes and benefits on a broader population scale

Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Program: Impacts on Health Care Utilization, Cost, and Quality

From 2010 to 2013, RAND conducted a program evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants program, describing the structure, process, and outcomes for the first three cohorts of grantee programs (awarded in 2009 and 2010). The current study extends previous work by investigating the impact of PBHCI on consumers' healthcare use, total costs of care to Medicaid, and quality of care in three States

Practice Facilitation to Implement Alcohol-related Care in Veterans Health Administration Liver Clinics: A Study Protocol

Describes the methodology of a study that aims to test a 6-month practice facilitation for managing unhealthy alcohol use in Veterans Health Administration liver clinics

Prevalence and Correlates of Positive Follow-up Screens in Primary Care for Unhealthy Alcohol and Other Drug Use After a Negative Screen

Aims to determine the proportion and characteristics of adults in primary care who screen positive for unhealthy substance use one or more years after screening negative

Prevention Strategies for Unhealthy Alcohol Use (From the Handbook of Evidence-Based Prevention of Behavioral Disorders in Integrated Care)

Describes prevention strategies for the identification of unhealthy alcohol use in primary care, including outlining risk factors, methods of screening, and a model for how to adapt alcohol-related prevention methods to a stepped care approach

Primary Care and Mental Health: Overview of Integrated Care Models

Summarizes models of care for mental health in primary care settings, including using nurse practitioners to screen, diagnose, and treat common conditions such as alcohol use disorder. Nurse practitioners can take a continuing education test online after reading this article for a small fee

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