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 first be answering questionnaires, that are either standardized or not, to get basic information from you regarding your history of alcohol or drug use. These have differences but are essentially asking questions on how you were using them and the effects they had on you. Answering these let the evaluators have a starting point for further queries.

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 would have read your answers already within the questionnaires before they speak with you but having conclusions based on the initial reading they did was avoided. They must start by having neutral position and not judging you basing on that one conviction or incident. And they will allow you share your explanations of your written answers.

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.

Discuss with them the things you think are not properly explained in the report. Or if there are details you feel are incorrect, so they can decide if changes are appropriate. Disagreeing with them is possible but avoid being surprised by reading it all.




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