Alcohol and Substance Use

This page offers links to the Alcohol and Substance Use Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment Guideline and supporting material. Dates indicate when HealthTeamWorks posted the material or link. 

Alcohol and Substance Use Guideline Materials

• Alcohol and Substance Use Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Guideline (September 2011)
• Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Supplement (September 2011)
• Pain Contract Sample (September 2011)
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Supplement (August 2010)
• Strategies for Implementing SBIRT in Clinical Practices (September 2011)
• Frequently Asked Questions by Healthcare Providers (December 2011)
• Medications for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders (September 2011)
• Diagnostic Criteria for Substance Abuse and Substance Dependence (September 2011)
• Resources for Healthcare Providers (December 2011)
• References (December 2011)
• Committee members (September 2011)
• Clinician's Screening Tool (NIDA-Modified Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test or ASSIST): A web-based interactive tool to guide clinicians through a short series of questions and generate a substance-involvement score based on the patient's responses. The tool also suggests the level of intervention needed. (June 2009)
• CRAFFT Toolkit (June 2010) - Adapted from the CRAFFT Toolkit developed by Massachusetts SBIRT. HealthTeamWorks and SBIRT Colorado are grateful to our colleagues in Massachusetts for providing this resource. Includes information on confidentiality and referral issues specific to Colorado.
• Brief Conversations Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques for the Primary Care Provider - videos (October 2009)
• Quick Reference Guide to Billing for SBIRT (June 2011)

Brief Assessment Instruments

• AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) (September 2011)
• AUDIT - Spanish (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) (September 2011)
• DAST-10© (Drug Abuse Screening Test) (September 2011)
• CRAFFT Adolescent Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment for Alcohol and Other Drug Use (December 2011)
• ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test) (October 2011)

Brief Intervention and Brief Therapy

• Descriptions of Brief Intervention and Brief Therapy (December 2011)
• Sample Brief Intervention (December 2011)

Referral

• Access To Recovery flyer (May 2011)

Free Learning Opportunities

In-office training

HealthTeamWorks offers free in-office training to Colorado healthcare providers on its new alcohol and substance use guideline. A physician facilitator will visit with your clinic staff over the lunch hour to introduce the guideline recommendations and lead simulations of brief conversations with patients about alcohol and substance use. HealthTeamWorks provides lunch. To schedule an in-office training, please call Emily Gingerich at (303) 962-8981. For more information, download these flyers:

• General SBIRT Rapid Improvement Activity (RIA)
• SBIRT RIA focusing on women of childbearing age
• SBIRT RIA focusing on adolescents and the CRAFFT Toolkit

CME presentations

HealthTeamWorks offers free CME presentations on its alcohol and substance use guideline to Colorado healthcare providers. To schedule a presentation, please call Emily Gingerich at (303) 962-8981.

Webcasts

HealthTeamWorks, CHAMPS and SBIRT Colorado offer a three-part webcast series on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT). These webcasts and accompanying CME credit hours are provided free to participants from CHAMPS Organizational Members and for all participants from Colorado. 

• Session 1 – “How to Implement Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT),” is available from our online archive.
• Session 2 – "Brief Intervention and Brief Therapy: Enhancing Treatment with the Non-Dependent User,"
  presented by Anjali Nandi, MA, LAC, MAC, and Tracey Ayers, LPC, CAC III is available from our online archive. Session 3 – “Introduction to New Clinical Guidelines for Alcohol and Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention” presented by Perry Dickinson, MD, professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center, is available from our online archive.  

Funder

In 2006, Colorado received a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, to develop and implement screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) as a routine procedure within health service delivery systems. SBIRT targets people with high-risk, nondependent use and provides intervention strategies before more intensive treatment is called for. 

The SBIRT Colorado initiative, administered by the Division of Behavioral Health (formerly the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division) and managed by Peer Assistance Services Inc., provided funds to HealthTeamWorks to develop the alcohol and substance use guideline to increase awareness and use of SBIRT in healthcare settings throughout Colorado. Learn more about SBIRT Colorado.

NEW! Online SBIRT and Tobacco Training Module: designed for use by the whole practice team (click on link or picture above to watch)

• Practice Plan
• Practice Plan Example
• Brief Conversations Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques for the Primary Care Provider - videos

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