Unhealthy Alcohol Use

Resources that are part of the Unhealthy Alcohol Use environmental scan provided by NORC.

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

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.

Getting Paid for MAT: Sustainable Reimbursement Series

This webinar series includes resources and trainings related to administering and reimbursement for medications for addiction treatment, including reimbursement for telehealth for substance use disorders.

Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention

This guide and toolkit was created to support and empower youth-serving providers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to engage youth in substance use prevention conversations, including what not to say, and how to help young people connect with services when needed.

Further Experience with the Practice Integration Profile: A Measure of Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration

Describes the experience of continuing the validation of the Practice Integration Profile measure using internal consistency, intra-rater consistency, and inter-rater consistency with a separate and larger sample from a broader array of practices

First-Line Medications for the Outpatient Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review of Perceived Barriers

Systematic review exploring barriers for using medications for alcohol use disorder in outpatient clinical settings, showing that providers continue to lack knowledge about the use of medications and continue to experience stigma and barriers related to accessing medications

Examples of Telehealth-Enabled Team-Based Care Implementation: SUD Care

A clinical pharmacist from Rush University Medical Center presents an example of implementation of team-based care using telehealth for substance use disorder (SUD) care.

Evidence for the Effectiveness and Acceptability of e-SBI or e-SBIRT in the Management of Alcohol and Illicit Substance Use in Pregnant and Post-partum Women

Reviews current evidence for the use of screening, brief intervention, and referral (SBIRT) to treatment delivered through mHealth technologies and explores implications of using mHealth to address alcohol use among pregnant and post-partum women

Evidence Based Models of Care for the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorder in Primary Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review

Reviews 11 studies on the use of medication for alcohol use disorder (AUD) in primary care, concluding that models of care that treat AUD in primary care can increase the uptake of treatment

Evaluation of Spin in the Abstracts of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Focused on Treatments of Alcohol Use Disorder

Evalutes the prescene of "spin," a biased way of reporting results, in the abstract of systematic reviews of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder, finding "spin" in more than 40% of the abstracts identified, something physicians should be aware of

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