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Buprenorphine
Physician Locator
An online service of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment designed to assist
the States, medical and addiction treatment communities, potential patients, and/or
their families in finding information on locating physicians who can prescribe buprenorphine
(Suboxone® and Subutex®) for treatment of opioid addiction.
The College Alcohol Study, Harvard
School of Public Health
The Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study (CAS) is an ongoing survey
of over 14,000 students at 120 four-year colleges in 40 states. Dr. Henry Wechsler,
the Principal Investigator of the study, presented recent
findings at the 2007 Meeting of the College and University SBI Grantees.
College Drinking--Changing the
Culture
NIAAA's prevention Web site is a one-stop resource for comprehensive research-based
information on issues related to alcohol abuse and binge drinking among college students.
Commonly Used Drugs
List from the National Institute on Drug Abuse outlines the most commonly abused
drugs with their commercial and slang names, DEA categories, routes of administration,
and short- and long-term effects.
Conference
Proceedings on Alcohol- and Drug-Related Injuries
The Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care has
just published a special issue of proceedings from the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) conference, "Alcohol
and Other Drug Problems among Hospitalized Trauma Patients: Controlling Complications,
Mortality, and Trauma Recidivism." Conference participants included trauma surgeons,
advocates, substance-use treatment researchers, and government representatives. The
site also includes articles
on screening and brief
interventions.
e-CHUG
The e-CHUG is an evidence-based, on-line alcohol intervention and personalized feedback
tool developed by counselors and psychologists at San Diego State University.
Drawing on Motivational Interviewing and Social Norms feedback theories, the
CHUG is designed to motivate individuals to reduce their consumption using personalized
information about their own drinking and risk factors.
e-TOKE
The electronic THC Online Knowledge Experience (e-TOKE) is a marijuana-specific
brief assessment and feedback tool designed to reduce marijuana use among college
students. It was modeled after, and created by the same team that designed, the electronic
Check-Up to Go (e-CHUG <http://e-chug.com>). The e-TOKE is designed to motivate
students to reduce their level of marijuana use using personalized information about
their own behavior and risk factors.
Ensuring
Solutions to Alcohol Problems
Ensuring Solutions, based at the George Washington Medical Center, provides research-based
information on effective alcohol treatment and the barriers many people face when
they seek help for a drinking problem.
The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and
Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
the Center provides support to institutions of higher education in their efforts
to address alcohol and other drug problems.
HIPAA
Privacy Rule: Implications for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Programs [pdf]
SAMHSA document, "The Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records
Regulation and The HIPAA Privacy Rule: Implications for Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Programs," providing guidance for substance abuse treatment programs that are
subject to the HIPPA Privacy Rule.
Motivational
Interviewing
The Mid-Atlantic
Addiction Technology Transfer Center maintains a Web site of resources on motivational
interviewing (MI). The Web site contains MI information, including background information,
applications for special populations such as criminal justice clients and medical
patients, and the practice of MI in groups. The resource library includes bibliographies,
articles and abstracts, treatment manuals, and a calendar of training events. The
Web site also offers courses
in MI.
National Survey of Substance Abuse
Treatment Services (N-SSATS)
SAMHSA annual survey of all facilities in the Inventory of Substance Abuse Treatment
Services (I-SATS) that collects information on location, characteristics, services
offered, and utilization. Information from the survey is used to compile and update
the National Directory of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment Programs and the online
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator. The N-SSATS includes a periodic survey
of substance abuse treatment in adult and juvenile correctional facilities.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health
SAMHSA annual survey that reports on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences
of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non-institutionalized
population aged 12 years and over. Data are collected on the use of illicit drugs,
the non-medical use of licit drugs, and use of alcohol and tobacco products. The
survey is designed to produce drug and alcohol use incidence and prevalence estimates.
The survey also provides estimates for drug use and serious mental illness by State.
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.
NIAAA Alcohol Alert
on Screening for Alcohol and Alcohol Related Problems
Published in April 2005, this Alcohol Alert from the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism focuses on the use of routine alcohol screening in a variety
of medical settings.
Project
Cork
Project Cork produces a bibliographic database, offers current awareness services,
produces resource materials, responds to queries, and collaborates in professional
education efforts. The CORK database of more than 69,000 holdings is searchable online.
Cork's mission is to assemble and disseminate current, authoritative information
on substance abuse for clinicians, health care providers, human service personnel,
and policy makers.
SBI
Reimbursement Guide
The Ensuring Solutions
to Alcohol Problems Web site provides an in-depth guide to using CPT and HCPCS
codes to get reimbursed for the provision of screening and brief intervention services
in a medical setting. The site also has useful links for Evaluation
and Management (E/M) Codes and how to use them for SBI reimbursement.
Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA)
SAMHDA is an initiative of SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies. The goal of the archive
is to provide ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data and
to promote the sharing of these data among researchers, academics, policymakers,
service providers, and others. User support is accessible through e-mail and a toll-free
helpline.
Substance
Abuse Screening and Assessment Instruments Database
The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute at the University of Washington developed the
database to assist treatment providers and researchers in finding appropriate instruments.
The database contains information on more than 310 questionnaires and interviews;
many with proven clinical utility and research validity. Some instruments can be
freely downloaded from the web; others can only be obtained from the copyright holder.
The database does not provide copies of instruments, but links to contact and availability
information are included, if known.
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
Locator
SAMHSA's searchable online directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs shows
the location of facilities around the country that treat alcoholism, alcohol abuse,
and drug abuse problems. The locator includes more than 10,000 addiction treatment
programs, including residential treatment centers, outpatient treatment programs,
and hospital inpatient programs for drug addiction and alcoholism. Listings include
treatment programs for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin addiction, as well as drug
and alcohol treatment programs for adolescents, and adults.
Uniform
Policy Provision Laws (UPPL) Toolkit
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, a project of the George Washington University
Medical Center, offers an online toolkit regarding Alcohol Exclusion Laws and Uniform
Policy Provision Laws.
World Health Organization ASSIST Project
The Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) was developed for the World Health Organization (WHO) by an international group of substance abuse researchers to detect and manage substance use and related problems in primary and general medical care settings.
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