© 1982 by Harvey A. Skinner, Ph.D., and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. You may reproduce this instrument for noncommercial use (clinical, research, training purposes) as long as you credit the author, Dr. Harvey A. Skinner, York University, Toronto, Canada.
The purpose of this manual is to introduce the ASSIST and to describe how to use it in health care settings – particularly community based primary health care settings – to identify people who are using substances, so that a brief intervention (or referral) can be provided, as appropriate.
Reproduced with permission of the publisher from Babor TF, Higgins-Biddle JC, Saunders JB, et al. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: guidelines for use in primary care, 2nd ed. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization; 2013.
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