Friday, March 2, 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 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 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 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 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 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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