Basic Details Regarding Alcohol And Drug Assessments

By Michael Ward


Being able to drive your own vehicle is a right most people want to enjoy since doing so is more convenient than using public transportation. Others are even driving as their profession to deliver items or as a chauffeur for other individuals. But in order to do these things, you should have a license and must follow the traffic laws.

This includes not driving under the influence of dangerous substances as this may put you and others around you in danger. When you are caught and convicted of this crime, the court normally requires you to have alcohol and drug assessments Grand Rapids facilities has. This is to find out how much you have been using them since the past years.

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 is going to already read your answers of their questionnaires before speaking to you but they avoid having conclusions according to their initial reading about them. They should begin by being in a neutral position while no judging you based on that single incident and conviction. And they would let you explain the answers you have written on there.

This is because explanation is not allowed to be written in many questionnaires and being able to explain them is important. Doing so helps in getting an accurate picture regarding your substance abuse though there are questions with enough space for explaining yourself. You could then tell how the incident or legal violation occurred and other essential information about it.

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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