SBIRT Oregon

This website offers a number of training resources, including information on SBIRT workflow, screening forms, clinic tools, training curriculum, video demonstrations, and billing and documentation.

IRETA

This website offers a number of training resources, including live and archived webinars, online courses, and downloadable curricula.

SBIRT Colorado

This website offers a number of training resources, including archived presentations, interactive online simulations, and downloadable clinician tools.

Indiana SBIRT Self-Paced Trainings

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center offers a variety of free self-paced learning modules. These interactive trainings include a certificate of completion along with 1 CEU per module. Because understanding a variety of substances is an important component to SBIRT, the site offers drug overview modules on alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, prescription drugs, tobacco, and methamphetamines. Each module covers historical impacts, social influences, physical and behavioral effects, health consequences, dependence concepts and shares national and state data.

BNI ART Institute

The BNI ART Institute is located at the Boston University School of Public Health. This website provides a number of SBIRT training resources.

SAMHSA

SAMHSA's SBIRT website offers a number of SBIRT training resources.

Motivational Interviewing CME/CE and Patient Simulation

This NIDA course provides practical guidance for physicians and other clinicians in effective Motivational Interviewing techniques that will facilitate conversations with patients to address health risk behaviors.

Catalyst Learning Center

This site provides online training on alcohol SBI for health professionals, alcohol SBI for physician assistants, and a variety of trainings on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders for health care providers.

SAMHSA

This website offers information on SBIRT reimbursement through commercial insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid.

SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions:

This website offers information on financing SBIRT services.

SBIRT Oregon

This website offers information on billing codes and documentation, both nationally and in Oregon.

Commonly Abused Drugs

NIDA resource on commonly abused drugs that includes a brief description of each drug, effects, statistics and trends, and related publications and resources.

Substance Use Disorders

This SAMHSA website provides facts on common substance use disorders.

NIDAMED

This website contains resources to increase awareness of the impact of substance use on patients' health and help identify drug use early and prevent it from escalating to addiction.

Marijuana Clinical Guidance: Information to Guide Work with Adolescents and Adults

This resource provides guidance for screening and conducting a brief intervention for marijuana use. It includes information on key health effects, safety concerns, possible medication interactions, key points for population subgroups, suggestions for addressing common assumptions about marijuana, discussion tips with parents, policy history, strains, and cannabis use disorder.

American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)

ASAM is a professional society representing over 4,000 physicians, clinicians and associated professionals in the field of addiction medicine. This website offers a number of resources on medication-assisted treatment. One such resource is the ASAM Practice Guideline for the Use of Medications in the Treatment of Addiction Involving Opioid Use, 2016.

Providers' Clinical Support System for Medication Assisted Treatment (PCSS-MAT)

PCSS-MAT is national training and mentoring project developed in response to the prescription opioid misuse epidemic and the availability of pharmacotherapies to address opioid use disorder. The overarching goal of PCSS-MAT is to make available the most effective medication-assisted treatments to serve patients in a variety of settings, including primary care, psychiatric care, substance use disorder treatment, and pain management settings.

Incorporating Alcohol Pharmacotherapies Into Medical Practice

This manual guides counselors in the use of medications to help clients achieve abstinence from alcohol. It describes how the medications work and whom may benefit. It also presents the side effects of three FDA-approved medications: acamprosate, disulfiram, and naltrexone.

BH Meds app

BH Meds is an app that provides up-to- date information on generic and brand name medications, including purpose, dosage and frequency, side effects, emergency conditions, cautions, considerations for pregnant women, and potential for abuse and dependency. It also features counselor strategies for helping patients quit smoking. It can be downloaded on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network

The ATTC Network offers a number of resources on MAT. Go to Projects > Tx for Opioids with Buprenorphine to learn more.

SAMHSA Website on Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT):

SAMHSA has a website dedicated to MAT resources.

SAMHSA's Treatment Locator

This searchable database includes substance abuse and mental health treatment providers, as well as community health centers. You can also call 1-800- 662-HELP (1-800- 662-4357).

SAMHSA/HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions – Referral to Treatment

This website provides a number of resources for referral to specialty addiction treatment, including forms, scripts, and recorded webinars.

Treatment for Alcohol Problems: Finding and Getting Help

This NIAAA publication is written for individuals, and their family and friends, who are looking for options to address alcohol problems. It is intended as a resource to understand what treatment choices are available and what to consider when selecting among them.

DrugFacts: Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction

This NIDA fact sheet discusses research findings on effective treatment approaches for substance use disorders.

Memorandum of Understanding

This example Memorandum of Understanding from Adagio Health Inc. can be modified to help establish a referral source between a medical setting and behavioral health provider. Referring patients in the Severe zone for further assessment and treatment is greatly aided by having an established referral relationship.

Patient Guide: Finding Addiction Treatment

This 3-page guide can be given to patients who are considering treatment for substance use disorders, including alcohol and opioid use. This guide has links to find resources across the nation, breaks down the types of treatment, and addresses other common questions about treatment in plain language.

American Dental Association (ADA)

The ADA website has many resources on the connection between substance use and oral health, including resources on "meth mouth" and prescription opioid misuse.

The Applicability of SBIRT in Dental Settings: A Review of the Literature

This literature review describes how SBIRT can be applied in the dental setting.

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Screening for Substance Use in the Dental Setting

This site provides insights for dental professionals to recognize risky substance use and addiction and be prepared to counsel patients and refer them to treatment.

TAP 33: Systems-Level Implementation of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

This SAMHSA publication describes core elements of SBIRT programs for people with or at risk for substance use disorders. It also describes SBIRT services implementation, covering challenges, barriers, cost, and sustainability.

Addressing Alcohol Use practice manual: An Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Program

This practice manual, funded by the Center for Disease Control and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of this manual is to ensure that every patient who uses alcohol is identified, screened, and offered an appropriate intervention. The manual evaluates the current system for identification, defines a new system, and describes developing and maintaining an alcohol SBI plan.

Memorandum of Understanding

This example Memorandum of Understanding from Adagio Health Inc. can be modified to help establish a referral source between a medical setting and behavioral health provider. Referring patients in the Severe zone for further assessment and treatment is greatly aided by having an established referral relationship.

Implementing Care for Alcohol & Other Drug Use in Medical Settings

This resource provides concrete guidance on integrating alcohol/other drug care into routine primary care, including the specific changes needed, recommended screening tools, measures for evaluating practice transformation efforts, etc. The guide outlines an extended/evolved model of SBIRT, which includes screening for alcohol and/or other drug use disorders, eliciting symptoms, brief counseling, management, and follow-up with monitoring. The guide addresses both clinical and organizational practice challenges to implementing SBIRT and provides guidance for overcoming those challenges.