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Drug Use Screen

Abbreviation
DUS
Description

How many times in the past year have you used an illegal drug or used a prescription medication for nonmedical reasons?” Scores that are >1 have 100% sensitivity and about 73.5% specificity for presence of a drug disorder (Smith, Schmidt, Allensworth-Davies & Saitz, 2010).

Category
Substance Use
Subcategory
Drugs
Studies Using This Assessment