The ICARE Partnership is continually working to identify and develop tools to support providers practicing in integrated care settings.  The screening tools below are provided by the Governor's Institute on Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

• Alcohol/Drug Screening and Brief Intervention in the Medical Setting
• Alcohol/Drug Screening and Brief Intervention in Psychiatry
• Alcohol/Drug Screening and Brief Intervention in the Pediatric Population
• Alcohol/Drug Screening and Brief Intervention in the OB/Gyn Setting
  
  

Another helpful guide, "Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much:  A Clinician's Guide 2005 Edition" can be found the web site of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.   Continuing medical education is available on how to use this guide at Medscape.com.

Screening Tools and Algorithms from the Greene County/ECU Project

• ICARE Substance Abuse Flow Chart
• ICARE Adult Encounter Form
• ICARE Adolescent Encounter Form

Other Screening Tools

• AUDIT 
• CAGE Questions - to view the extact wording of the questions, see the citation, Ewing, JA. (1984).  Detecting Alcoholism.  Journal of the American Medical Association, 252, 1901-1907.
• CAGE-AID Questions - to view the exact wording of the questions, see the citation, Wisconsin Medical Journal. Brown, R.L., and Rounds, L.A. Conjoint screening questionnaires for alcohol and drug abuse. Wisconsin Medical Journal 94:135-140, 1995. 
  
• CRAFFT (adolescent screening tool) - scroll down to view the tool
• Opioid Risk Tool - Webster, LR & Webster, MR.  (2005). Predicting Aberrant Behaviors in Opioid-Treated Patients: Preliminary Validation of the Opioid Risk Tool.  Pain Medicine, 6(6), 432-442. 
          

Please access the ICARE Partnership Weblinks to access the Governor's Institute and a listing of other sites with practice tools supporting integrated care.  Visit our site policies page to review how algorithms are reviewed and posted on this site.

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