Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much: A Clinician's Guide
and Related Professional Support Resources
Contents
Clinician Support and Training
Patient Education
Clinician Support and Training
The Guide
Medications update
Online training for CME/CE credits
This interactive, engaging course offers four 10-minute, realistic video cases. CME/CE credits for nurses and physicians are offered through Medscape®
Video Cases: Helping Patients Who Drink Too Much
Spread the word about this dynamic course to your colleagues, staff, students, or organization members. Visit our toolkit page for a downloadable ad, flyers for mailing or handing out at meetings, and other resources.
Forms for downloading
- Screening instrument: The Alcohol Use
Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
- Assessment support materials
- Pre-formatted progress notes and templates
- Medication wallet card form
- Wallet Cards(fits Avery® templates 8371, 8372, 8373, 8376, and 8377)
- Patient drinking diary forms (also see the tracking cards on the Rethinking Drinking Web site)
PowerPoint™slide show
This 80-slide PowerPoint™ show helps instructors to present the content of the Guide to students and professionals in general medicine and mental health fields. It takes viewers step-by-step through the Guide's process for alcohol screening and brief intervention and showcases the helpful materials in the appendix. To access the slide views without animation, viewers may download a PDF version.
Manuals from Project COMBINE
Although designed with the research community in mind, these manuals hold a wealth of guidance for clinicians in general medical or mental health practices who wish to offer (1) medication management support for patients prescribed a medication for alcohol dependence or (2) state-of-the-art specialized alcohol counseling.
Other publications for professionals
Patient Education
Rethinking Drinking
Other publications for the public 