Email UpdatesThe ASAM Criteria: Treatment Criteria for Addictive, Substance Related, and Co-Occurring Conditions
Comprehensive set of guidelines on the placement, continued stay, and transfer/discharge of patients with addiction and co-occurring conditions
Medical Providers
Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
The purpose of this manual is to introduce the ASSIST and to describe how to use it in health care settings – particularly community based primary health care settings – to identify people who are using substances, so that a brief intervention (or referral) can be provided, as appropriate.
A Guidebook of Professional Practices for Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration: Observations From Exemplary Sites
This Guidebook identifies the key professional practices prominent among exemplary integrated primary care organizations, with the goal of helping other sites integrate care more effectively. Findings are organized into two categories: Organization-Level Professional Practices, and Interpersonal and Individual Professional Practices.
Decision Support Tool and Billing Modules
The Decision Support Tool empowers providers to estimate Medicare and Medicaid revenue across prominent integrated care services to finance these services more effectively in community mental health care, substance use treatment and primary care provider organizations. It includes a list of specific billing codes, service types, professional discipline coverage, documentation and time requirements.
Help Save Lives: Co-Prescribe Naloxone to Patients at Risk of Overdose
Lists factors that may help physicians determine whether to coprescribe naloxone to a patient or to a family member or close friend of the patient.
How HIPAA Allows Doctors To Respond to the Opioid Crisis
Provides information about when healthcare professionals are legally allowed to disclose some health information related to OUD without a patient's permission.
Reducing Risk of Misuse and Diversion
Describes strategies to help reduce the potential for misuse or diversion of medication for SUD treatment.
Medications for Addiction Treatment (MAT) Readiness and Implementation Checklist
Provides policymakers, State and local officials, and other community stakeholders with key questions to consider before engaging in efforts to increase access to MAT for addiction in their communities
Fact Sheet: Substance (Other Than Tobacco) Abuse Structured Assessment and Brief Intervention (SBIRT) Services
Describes what SBIRT is, how SBIRT services are covered by Medicare, and what types of healthcare providers may provide SBIRT services under Medicare. These include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, clinical psychologists, and clinical social workers.
Managing Side Effects and Complications of Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain
Describes risk factors for the development of opioid-related adverse events and how to mitigate these risks. Provides an overview of adverse events, including their symptoms and how to manage them.