Standardized Substance Use Screening and Assessment Tools
The substance use screening tool should be developmentally appropriate, valid, reliable, and practical for use in a busy medical office. The best screening tools contain the lowest number of succinct, validated questions that can elicit accurate and reliable responses. At a minimum, the screening tool combined with clinical judgment and additional assessments as needed should help identify the patient’s frequency of substance use and risk level.
The following are commonly used substance use screening/assessment tools:
Each tool provides an interpretation of screening results; below is to screening interpretation for S2B1 and CRAFFT.
Interpreting Substance Use Screening Results
Each tool provides an interpretation of screening results.
Interpreting S2BI
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Interpreting CRAFFT
Explore Yes responses with the patient to reveal the extent of substance use-related problems and inform the brief intervention.