When to contact BBAMS
Review common referral and consultation situations without treating screening as diagnosis.
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
Practical resources for healthcare professionals.
Use these resources to support screening, respectful conversations, warm connections, referral, and coordinated addiction-medicine care.
A screening result is not a diagnosis. A meaningful concern may be enough to begin a supportive conversation and request specialty assessment.
Screening and brief intervention
Validated screening can identify concerns that routine questions may miss. Tool selection, scoring, interpretation, and follow-up should match the patient population and current clinical guidance.
Referral and warm connection
Refer or request a consult
Use the public connection route without sending clinical information through this website.
What happens after connection
See the BBAMS pathway from first contact through assessment, planning, and follow-up.
Concern
Supportive offer
Warm connection
Peer engagement
Clinical assessment
Plan and feedback
Perinatal and OB/GYN
Use current clinical guidance and patient-specific judgment. No single screening tool is presented here as universally required during pregnancy.
Future BBAMS perinatal quick references will appear only after ownership, version, accessibility, and clinical review are complete.
Emergency and inpatient care
Consultation information is organized by setting without claiming universal facility availability.
Medication treatment and clinical guidance
Current authoritative guidance and clinically reviewed BBAMS materials may be linked here. This page does not provide individualized prescribing instructions.
Source: NIDA · Last reviewed: September 2026
Documentation, privacy, and quality
Respectful clinical practice
Screening is not diagnosis. Preserve patient choice, use respectful and non-stigmatizing documentation, and make the next step understandable.
Secure coordination
Use approved secure communication, maintain 42 CFR Part 2 awareness, and apply organizational policy and applicable law. Website text is not legal advice.
Follow-up and feedback
Plan appropriate follow-up and feedback while respecting consent, privacy, and the roles of the existing care team.
Measurement and quality improvement
Use reviewed measures and transparent methods. Do not infer an outcome or protocol from a screening score alone.
BBAMS materials and downloads
No approved production-quality BBAMS download is available for publication in this release. Materials will appear only after ownership, version, accessibility, and clinical-review requirements are documented.
These resources are provided for general information. They do not replace an individual clinical evaluation, diagnosis, treatment plan, or emergency care. External services and information may change; confirm details directly with the responsible organization.
Screening results do not by themselves establish a diagnosis. Follow current source instructions, clinical judgment, organizational policy, applicable law, and appropriate assessment procedures.
Last reviewed: September 2026