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. 2019 Oct 24;40(1):arcr.v40.1.07. doi: 10.35946/arcr.v40.1.07

Table 2.

AUD and SUD Screening and Assessment Tools for the Primary Care Setting

Tool Description
AUD
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide20
  • Clinician-administered screening

  • Developed for youth ages 9 to 18

  • Two questions about patient and peer alcohol use

  • Developmentally specific questions for patients in elementary school, middle school, and high school

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)21
  • Clinician- or patient-administered screening

  • Developed for adults

  • Ten questions about alcohol use, three questions in abbreviated version (AUDIT-C)

AUD and SUD
Screening to Brief Intervention (S2BI)22
Brief Screener for Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Drugs (BSTAD)23
  • Clinician- or patient-administered screening

  • Developed for adolescents

  • Three initial questions about tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use in the past year

  • Four additional questions about other types of drugs if adolescent replied yes to any of the three initial questions

  • For S2BI, four choices for frequency of use over the past year

  • For BSTAD, number of days of use over the past year

Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, and Other Substance Use (TAPS)24
  • Clinician- or patient-administered screening and assessment

  • Developed for adults

  • Four initial questions about tobacco, alcohol, illicit drugs, and nonmedical use of prescription drugs in the past year

  • Additional questions to assess risk level if patient replied yes to initial questions

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Quick Screen25
  • Clinician-administered screening and assessment

  • Developed for adults

  • Four initial questions about frequency of tobacco, alcohol, illicit drug, and nonmedical prescription drug use in the past year

  • Clinician intervention guided by patient response

Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)26
  • Clinician-administered screening and assessment

  • Developed for adults

  • Questions about lifetime and past 3-month use of tobacco, alcohol, and seven other drugs

  • Assessment of frequency, desire to use, and associated substance use problems if patient endorsed substance use in the past 3 months

  • Questions about injection drug use, concern from friends or relatives, and difficulty with decreasing substance use if patient endorsed lifetime substance use