Monday, February 26, 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.

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 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 are short and were researched on several participants to have a relatively reliable and accurate outcome. Some professionals will ask you also questions not related to your use of the substances. These are designed to find out if you were dealing with depression, unusual stress, anxiety, recent break up or other similar ones.

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 some questionnaires do not allow you to write an explanation for your answers which is important at times. Doing so helps them to picture out more accurately our use of the substance and other questionnaires though have sufficient space for you to explain. You may tell them other essential information like how that incident or that legal violation happened.

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 to you the report and give you the opportunity of responding to it so read it carefully and make sure what you discussed during the interview matches with it. This prevents you from being surprised in presenting it to the court. Ask them if you have questions about any of the things 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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