Primary Care

Trains primary care and emergency medicine providers on SBIRT in medical settings

Introduces key principles of motivational interviewing that primary care providers can use, including methods and strategies for developing patient-centered communication skills

Training for primary care providers that includes text and instructional videos addressing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to screen, evaluate, and refer patients with substance use disorders

Overview of the NIAAA Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much guide for primary care physicians to address UAU in patients

Guide for primary care physicians that offers an evidence-based approach to screening, assessing, and treating AUDs in general healthcare settings; includes the single alcohol screening question (SASQ) and the AUDIT-C and appendices of clinician and patient support materials

Literature review of implementation studies of alcohol SBI using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) model to identify domains addressed by programs that achieved high rates of screening and/or brief intervention

Guides primary care practices in adapting alcohol SBI to their practice; involves steps required to plan, implement, and improve this process

Discusses a primary care intervention in which patients with hypertension and/or diabetes received alcohol SBI and medications for alcohol use disorders

This is a change guide for primary care providers on how to offer integrated care for patients with alcohol use disorder or substance use disorder; it outlines nine changes, covering both clinical and organizational implementation.

Identifies implementation strategies that focus on SBI uptake and measure impact on heavy drinking and delivery of SBI in primary care