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 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 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 brief and have been research on thousands of participants in order to have an outcome which is accurate and reliable relatively. Some professionals would also ask you questions not related to the use of these substances. These are aimed in finding out if you are dealing with a recent break up, depression, anxiety, unusual stress or others.

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 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 is done reviewing your history and the incident then they will tell you how your use of that substance falls in a spectrum. After they verbally shared their findings to you, they would proceed in writing a report to summarize what they found. This includes their recommendations, if any, and what are these things 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 those things you think were not explained properly in the report. If also the details there are incorrect for you, so they could decide if changing them is appropriate. Disagreement is possible but read it to avoid being surprised.




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