Clinical Provider Quick Tips

Addressing Substance Use in Primary Care Settings

What You Need to Know

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Stimulants: Signs, Symptoms, and Identifying Use

  • Methamphetamine Factsheet (PDF)
  • Methamphetamine Patient Education (PDF)
  • Single Question SUD Screener (PDF)
  • Comprehensive SUD History Assessment (PDF)
  • Safer Drug Use (PDF)
  • Comprehensive Primary Care Guide for Patients who Drink Alcohol and Use Drugs (PDF)

Engaging and Motivating Patients in the Primary Care Setting

  • Stages of Change: Primary Tasks (PDF)
  • OARS-MI Processes-Readiness Ruler Card (PDF)
  • Ask-Tell-Ask Approach (PDF)

Intervening and Caring for Patients with Co-occurring Mental Health Disorders

  • Methamphetamine Psychosis (PDF)

Providing Culturally-Responsive Patient Care

  • Words Matter: Terms to Use to Remove Bias from Your Language (PDF)
  • Racial Disparities in Access to MAT in California (PDF)

Opioids, Fentanyl & Other Novel Synthetics: Addressing Overdose Risk

  • Fentanyl: Drug Fact Sheet-DEA (PDF)
  • One Pill Can Kill: Overview and Key Results (PDF)
  • Prescription Opioids and Heroin-Patient Education (PDF)
  • Naloxone: How to use Naloxone to Reverse an Overdose- Patient Education (PDF)
  • Fentanyl FAQ for Providers (PDF)
  • How to Recognize and Respond to an Overdose-Patient Education (PDF)

Supporting Patients with Medications for Opioid Use Disorders (MOUD) – Buprenorphine

  • Buprenorphine Quick Start Guide-Providers (PDF)
  • Buprenorphine Self-Start Guide (PDF)
  • Starting Buprenorphine with Microdosing and Cross Tapering (PDF)
  • Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) (PDF)

This series is sponsored by the Department of Healthcare Services in California through the SAMSHA State Opioid Response Grants. All information in the presentations are generated by the presenters and do not reflect the opinions of CA DHCS.