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02 March 2018

Basic Information About Alcohol And Drug Assessments

By Michael Ward


Being capable of driving your own car is the right most individuals want to enjoy as doing this is more convenient compared to the public transportation services. Others even drive vehicles as a profession such as being the chauffeur of their clients and delivering items. But having a license is a must and you should follow traffic rules.

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 review of the incident and your history has been finished by the professional then they will be telling you in what spectrum your substance use falls under. After their findings are shared to you verbally, they would proceed to write and summarize those things they found in the report. This includes any recommendations they might have and what are these recommendations.

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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