Additional Recommendations on Substance Use Disorders Tools

Army Substance Use Disorders Program Directors attending an Army Substance Abuse Program Conference in May 2002 identified additional items that might be of use to health care personnel implementing the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Substance Use Disorders in the Primary Care Setting.

The items identified are listed below.

Provider Tools

Resources

--Center for Substance Abuse Treatment(CSAT).

Phone: 1-800-729-6686. Website: http://www.samhsa.gov/csat

CSAT is a part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. It supports treatment services through block grants and develops knowledge about effective drug treatment, disseminates the findings to the field and promotes their adoption. CSAT publications are available through the National Clearinghouse on Alcohol and Drug Information.

--National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI).

Phone: 1-800-729-6686. Website:

The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the information service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NCADI is the world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse. Services include: an information services staff (English, Spanish, TDD capability) equipped to respond to the public's alcohol, tobacco, and drug (ATD) inquiries; distribution of free or low-cost ATD materials (fact sheets, brochures, pamphlets, monographs, posters, and video tapes); culturally-diverse prevention, intervention, and treatment resources; annotated bibliographies from alcohol and drug data bases; access to the Prevention Materials Database and the Treatment Resources Database and dissemination of Federal grant announcements for ATD prevention, treatment, and research funding opportunities.

--National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Public Information Office.

Phone: 301-443-1124. Website: http://www.nida.nih.gov

Answers inquiries about NIDA's treatment research activities, including behavioral therapies, access to treatment, organization and management, cost effectiveness, or medications development.

Publications

--National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), bimonthly publication, NIDA Notes.

Free subscription available via the NIDA's home page: http:// www.drugabuse.gov

Publications (cont)

--NIDA Clinical Toolbox.

Publications based on NIDA-supported research, including the Therapy Manuals Series,NIDA Research Reports (Anabolic Steroid Abuse, Cocaine Abuse and Addiction, Methamphetamine Abuse, Nicotine Addiction, Inhalant Abuse, and Heroin Abuse and Addiction); the book, Approaches to Drug Abuse Counseling, and the booklet, Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment. ThePrinciples of Drug Addiction Treatment booklet may be used or reproduced without permission from the Institute or the authors. Additional toolbox items include a NIDA Publications Catalog, a NIDA webpage flyer anda Commonly Abused Drugs Chart. Free copies of the NIDA Clinical Toolbox are available from the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information Telephone: 1-800-729-6686 or http:www.drugabuse.gov.

--Drugs, the Brain, and Behavior: The Pharmacology of Abuse and Dependence. J. Brick & C.K. Erickson, The Hayworth Medical Press.

Videos

--Medical Aspects of Alcohol: An Encyclopedia of Alcohol and Human Physiology: Part 1 and 2. FMS Productions. P.O. Box 5016, 1029 Cindy Lane, Carpinteria, CA 93014. Telephone: 1-800-421-4609.

--Soft is the Heart of a Child. Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services, 15251 Pleasant Valley Road, Center City, MN 55012-0176. Telephone: 1-800-328-9000. Website: . (Item #: 9505)

An award-winning drama that explores a classic alcoholic family situation - a father who drinks too much, a mother plagued by frustration, guilt, and denial, and three children whose suffering takes different forms.

Patient Tools

Print Media

--From Chocolate to Morphine, Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen, Houghton-Mifflin.

--Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment

An NIDA booklet that provides research-based information about addiction, drug treatment, and recovery to new patients in drug treatment, and to their friends and family. The booklet serves as a guide to new patients, by helping them get the most out of treatment and forewarning them about possible difficulties during treatment and recovery. May be ordered from the on-line publications catalog of The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at:

(catalog number BKD347)