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 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 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 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.

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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