Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention

This manual provides public health professionals, such as health educators and community health workers, with the information, skills, and tools needed to conduct Screening and Brief Intervention (SBI) so that they can help at-risk drinkers reduce their alcohol use to a safe amount or stop drinking.

Using this effective intervention to reduce risky drinking can help improve the health of individuals and communities by preventing the range of negative outcomes associated with excessive alcohol use: injuries and deaths, including from motor vehicle crashes; social problems, such as violence; physical and mental illnesses; and employment, relationship, and financial problems.