PROFESSIONAL SCREENING RESOURCES

Screening tools and brief-intervention resources.

Validated screening can help identify concerns that ordinary questions may miss. A positive screen does not establish a diagnosis; it signals that additional conversation or assessment may be appropriate.

These materials are intended for healthcare and related professionals. Use each tool according to the instructions, population, licensing terms, and current guidance provided by its source owner.

Authoritative tools and guidance

TAPS Tool

Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Medication, and Other Substance Use · Adults

A two-step screening and brief-assessment tool covering commonly used substance categories.

EXTERNAL OFFICIAL TOOL · DO NOT MIRROR

Open official TAPS Tool ↗ Review NIDA screening resources ↗

Source: NIDA · Last reviewed: September 2026

CRAFFT

Adolescent and young-adult screening candidate · Exact population wording remains under clinical review

The instrument is copyrighted. Use in practice and republication are governed by the source owner’s conditions.

LINK TO OFFICIAL SOURCE · DO NOT COPY

Open the official CRAFFT resource ↗

Source: CRAFFT Center · Last reviewed: September 2026

AUDIT-C

Brief alcohol screening

A brief alcohol screening tool consisting of three consumption-related questions. Follow current source instructions; no scoring threshold is reproduced here.

LINK TO OFFICIAL SOURCE

Review official AUDIT-C guidance ↗

Source: NIAAA · Last reviewed: September 2026

4P’s Plus

Pregnancy-related screening candidate · Exact BBAMS recommendation requires clinical approval

The tool requires licensing. Its questions are not reproduced or hosted by BBAMS.

LICENSING REQUIRED

Review licensing information ↗

Source: NTI Upstream · Last reviewed: September 2026

SURP-P

Substance Use Risk Profile–Pregnancy · Perinatal screening candidate

This is an external reference pending rights review and final clinical recommendation.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE · REVIEW PENDING

Review official state resource ↗

Source: Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Last reviewed: September 2026

DAST-10

Drug-use screening candidate

BBAMS will not host this tool until the current owner, version, and rights are verified.

DO NOT HOST · REVIEW PENDING

Review NIDA screening-tools chart ↗

Source: NIDA · Last reviewed: September 2026

TOOLS UNDER CLINICAL REVIEW

Not yet an approved BBAMS recommendation

TWEAK

Pregnancy-related alcohol-screening candidate · UNDER CLINICAL REVIEW

No download, questionnaire, scoring rule, or source link is published during this phase. Marla must confirm whether BBAMS recommends it, the intended population, its relationship to other alcohol tools, the authoritative version and scoring source, and applicable rights.

WITHHELD PENDING CLINICAL AND RIGHTS REVIEW

Clinical review boundary

This library does not publish final population assignments, positive-screen cutoffs, scoring rules, billing codes, reimbursement amounts, claims that one tool is universally required, or BBAMS-specific screening protocols.

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