Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test

The ASSIST is an 8-item questionnaire developed by an international group of substance abuse researchers for the World Health Organization. It's purpose is to detect psychoactive substance use and related problems among primary care patients. The ASSIST provides information about: the substances people have ever used in their lifetime; the substances they have used in the past three months; problems related to substance use; risk of current or future harm; level of dependence; and injecting drug use. Substances addressed include: tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, amphetamine type stimulants, sedatives, hallucinogens, inhalants, opioids, and other drugs.