Assessment Tools

Assessment Handbook
A Handbook on Procedures for Addictions Assessment Referral Services
This handbook will help assessment workers make the best use of local treatment and support services. Read more...

Inventory of Drug-Taking Situations (IDTS)
The IDTS is a clinical tool that allows substance use counsellors and researchers to assess the situations in which a client has used alcohol and/or other drugs over the last year. Read more...

Drug-Taking Confidence Questionnaire (DTCQ)
The DTCQ, a companion tool to the IDTS, allows substance use counsellors and researchers to identify a client’s self-efficacy in relation to 50 drinking and/or other drug-taking situations. Read more...

Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST-20)
The DAST–20 is designed to provide a brief, simple, practical, but valid method for identifying individuals who are abusing psychoactive drugs and yield a quantitative index score of the degree of problems related to drug use and misuse. Read more...

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