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.

This includes not being influenced by dangerous substances while driving as this might put you and other people around you at risk. When you are convicted or caught of this crime, you are required by the court to get alcohol and drug assessments Grand Rapids has available. This is to determine how much of them you were using since years ago.

You will answer standard questionnaires, or even not standardized ones, first for them to get the basic information of your use of alcohol and drugs and any related history. Each set of questions are different but are asking questions essentially on how you used them and their effects unto you. Answering them let the evaluators find the starting point for further queries of theirs.

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 would present the report to you and give you a chance of responding about it so carefully read it and make sure this matches with what you discussed at the interview. This prevents you in being surprised while presenting it at the court. Ask questions you have of the things that were written there.

If you think some things in the report were not properly explained then discuss these to them. Also, if details are there which seems incorrect to you, so they may change them when appropriate. Disagreeing with them is normal though avoid getting surprised.




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