Saturday 17 February 2018

Basic Information About 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.

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 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 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 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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