Email UpdatesImplementing Substance Use Screening Toolkit
This toolkit provides steps and resources such as webinars, worksheets, and workflow examples for implementing screening for substance use disorders into family planning visits.
Medical Providers
Implementing Adolescent SBIRT: Findings from the FaCES Project
Evaluates the implementation of adolescent screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in 13 different primary care clinics, which involved training and technical assistance and incorporated use of the electronic health records
How to Bill for Brief Substance and Alcohol Abuse Services
Describes how clinicians can bill for screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), including an explanation of what SBIRT services are and billing codes
Health IT Playbook Section 11: Specialists
This playbook section provides health information technology (IT) guidance for specialists, including guidance on health information exchange and electronic health record workflow tools, case studies, and best practices.
How Do You Effectively Evaluate the Elderly for Alcohol Use Disorder?
Discusses the prevalence and associated health problems of alcohol use disorder among older adults, as well as screening and treatment options, including naltrexone, acamprosate, and disulfiram
How Practices Can Advance the Implementation of Integrated Care in the COVID-19 Era
This issue brief presents a literature review of primary care practices implementing integrated behavioral health care which identified the main barriers to successful integration as financing, health information technology, and workforce challenges.
How to Sustain Behavioral Health Care in Primary Care Practice
Clinical experts share experiences implementing and planning for the integration of behavioral and mental health care in primary care settings, and describe successful strategies, sustainability considerations, and financial implications.
HSD-Approved Evidence-Based Screening Resources/Tools (SBIRT)
This web page includes links to 16 different screening tools for substance use with the number of questions for each and categories based on population and use.
Implementation Science: Effective, Engaging Strategies for Virtual Implementation Facilitation
As part of the AcademyHealth's series highlighting takeaways from the 13th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health, this blog post explores opportunities and challenges of remote implementation facilitation and shares best practices for effective engagement during and after the pandemic.
Implementation of Oral and Extended-Release Naltrexone for the Treatment of Emergency Department Patients With Moderate to Severe Alcohol Use Disorder: Feasibility and Initial Outcomes
Study exploring implementation of a protocol in the emergency department where patients who were discharged with alcohol use disorder received naltrexone and support for substance use