Guidance

Alcohol use screening tests

The alcohol use screening tests can be used by health professionals as a tool to assess a service users level of risk to alcohol harm.

Applies to England

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These 5 alcohol use screening tests help health and social care professionals to assess a service user’s level of risk to alcohol harm.

You can also use this alcohol advice and information leaflet with service users to help them understand their level of risk to alcohol harm and give them advice on how to reduce the risk.

We have also created free e-learning courses on alcohol identification and brief advice that help healthcare professionals to identify harmful alcohol use and give simple, structured advice.

Updates to this page

Published 1 June 2017
Last updated 30 October 2020 + show all updates
  1. Updated link to alcohol structured advice information leaflet to include ASSIST-Lite score.

  2. First published.

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