Basic Information About Alcohol And Drug Assessments

By Michael Ward


Having the ability to drive a vehicle you own is a right people like to enjoy since it is more convenient than using the public transportation. Others even are driving as a profession such as delivering items or being a chauffeur for their clients. But you must have a license as well as follow traffic laws in order for you to do this.

It includes not driving when under the influence from dangerous substances because this may place you at risk including those around you. When you have caught or convicted of doing this crime, getting the alcohol and drug assessments Grand Rapids professionals are offering is required of you. This is for determining your habit of using them since several years ago until now.

You would be answering questionnaires first, which are standardized or not, in getting your basic information regarding the history of your alcohol and drug use. Various ones have differences but essentially ask questions on how they were used by you and their effects to you. Answering these allow the evaluators to have a point where they start further queries.

Most questionnaires were researched with several thousands of participants to have the outcome reliable and accurate relatively, and are brief. Some professionals ask questions not directly related to your substance use. These are designed in determining if you have been dealing with unusual stress, recent break up, anxiety, depression, among other similar experiences.

The professional will have read already your answers in the questionnaires before speaking with you but has avoided concluding based on their initial reading of them. They should start by having a neutral position and do not judge you basing on one incident or conviction. And they would allow you to explain some of the answers you wrote.

This is because writing an explanation is not allowed in several questionnaires and explaining them is considered important. Doing so helps to get a picture about your substance abuse accurately though some questionnaires have enough spaces to explain yourself. You can then tell how that legal violation or that incident happened and other information which you deemed is essential.

Once the professional has finished reviewing your history as well as the incident, they would tell you how the use of the substance by you falls on the spectrum. After they shared their findings verbally to you, they will proceed to write the report to summarize the things they had found. This includes recommendations, if they have any, and what they recommend.

They will present you the report then give you the chance to respond about it so read that carefully and ensure it matches with the things discussed while you were interviewed. This prevents you to become surprised at court when it is presented there. Ask questions you might have of what were written there.

Discuss with them those things you think were not explained properly in the report. If also the details there are incorrect for you, so they could decide if changing them is appropriate. Disagreement is possible but read it to avoid being surprised.




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