Resources

• BASICS Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS): A Harm Reduction Approach, is a preventive intervention for college students 18 to 24 years old. It is aimed at students who drink alcohol heavily and have experienced or are at risk for alcohol-related problems such as poor class attendance, missed assignments, accidents, sexual assault, and violence. BASICS is conducted over the course of only two interviews, and these brief, limited interventions prompt students to change their drinking patterns.
  
  Brief Interventions and Brief Therapies for Substance Abuse SAMHSA TIP #34 provides rich resources for varied and diverse provision of brief intervention.
  
  Brief Intervention for Hazardous and Harmful Drinking: A Manual for Use in Primary Care [pdf] links scientific research to clinical practice by describing how to conduct brief interventions for patients with alcohol use disorders and those at risk of developing them.
  
  NIAAA Alcohol Alert on Brief Interventions
  Published in July 2005, this Alcohol Alert from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism describes the value of brief interventions in a variety of settings.
  
  Web BI
  Web BI, published in 2001 and developed by the University of Vermont with funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, is a web-based training for brief intervention (BI) for alcohol problems.