Basic Details Regarding 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 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 is going to already read your answers of their questionnaires before speaking to you but they avoid having conclusions according to their initial reading about them. They should begin by being in a neutral position while no judging you based on that single incident and conviction. And they would let you explain the answers you have written on there.

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 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.

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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